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Added subtitles to final moments of STS-107Space Shuttle Columbia Re-Entry Video
Here is a quick timeline of what occurred around the time of the video:
Video recording started at 08:41:35 a.m. (EST) February 1, 2003...
Video ends at 08:48:14 a.m. Shuttle is moving at mach 24.66 (18,771 mph) at an altitude of 230,348 ft.
The first indication that something is wrong occurs at 08:48:39 a.m ( 25 seconds after video ends ) when one of the Strain (correlates to force) gauge sensors on the left wing Fails (this is close to where a piece of foam had hit the space shuttle during launch)
Followed by the first sign of unusual Heating occurring at 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) when a Temperature sensor near one of the left wing panels that was hit by foam shows an abnormal increase.
Between 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) and 08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) a number of the sensors on the left side of the shuttle are showing some unusual readings.
08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) First signs of trouble begin to appear on right side of shuttle when approximately 10 percent of the strain gauges in the right wing show a small but unusual data trend.
After this point, heating abnormalities become more and more of a problem causing some holes in the left wing to allow hot gasses to enter the internals of the wing and create imbalances in the flow over the wing.
The shuttle is on auto-pilot and begins making small adjustments to compensate for the abnormal flows which are causing the shuttle to veer off its planned course.
08:53:45 a.m. ( 5 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) First report of debris observed leaving the orbiter.
For the next 5 minutes, multiple failures occur due to the excessive heat. Debris is seen leaving the orbiter from observers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico.
At 08:58:04 a.m. ( 9 minutes 5 seconds after video ends ) Very large adjustments are calculated by the auto-pilot to correct major flight instability.
08:58:20 a.m ( 9 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle crosses Mexico border into Texas.
08:58:48 a.m. ( 9 minutes 44 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle CommanderRick Husband transmits a radio communication "And, uh, Hou(ston)..."
08:59:32 a.m. ( 10 minutes 33 seconds after video ends ) Rick Husband transmits his last radio communication "Roger, uh buh (CUTOFF)" (Editor's note: Phonetically, sounded like first syllable of "before" or possibly "both;" he may have been responding to the BFS fault messages for both left-side main landing gear tires) This coincides with the INITIAL LOSS OF SIGNAL (LOS) at which point no data is able to be streamed to mission control.
MajorCrash/Breakup occurs around 09:00:02 a.m. A final data burst is transmitted from the shuttle but reports mostly errors and garbled data, only a few of the measurements could be analysed. ( 11 minutes 3 seconds after video ends )
At the time of breakup the shuttle was travelling about 12,500 mph at an altitude of 207,000 feet
Normally this onboard video would have recorded the entire landing sequence all the way to touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This video was recovered from the wreckage but the final moments were damaged and so it ends premature.
Unfortunate as it was, at the very least, the crew was doing something they loved. God bless them:
Commander: Rick D. Husband, a U.S. AirForce colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96).
Pilot: William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander
Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and
physicist who was in charge of the science mission.
Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer who was on her second space mission.
Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a U.S. Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.
Mission Specialist: Laurel Blair Salton Clark, a U.S. Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.

Subtitled last tape from the cockpit crew on the fatal re-entry. Space Shuttle ColumbiaSTS-107 was lost on its 28th mission
HQ version HERE: http://youtu.be/_rIHdk-_UoM .... The only surviving minutes on a piece of tape found on the ground ( +BBC in/outro) .. .. .►more info ►
Among the 80.000 recovered items later found on the ground was this videotape recording made by the astronauts during the start of re-entry. The 13-minute recording shows the flight crew astronauts conducting routine re-entry procedures and joking with each other. None gives any indication of a problem.
In this video, the flight-deck crew puts on their gloves and passes the video camera around to record plasma and flames visible outside the windows of the orbiter (a normal occurrence).
This recording, which on normal flights would have continued through landing, ends about four minutes before the shuttle began to disintegrate and 11 minutes before Mission Control lost the signal from the orbiter
Space ShuttleCrew:
flightdeck:
CommanderRick D. HusbandPilotWilliam C. McCoolMission Specialist4 Laurel B. Clark
Mission Specialist 2 Kalpana Chawla
Miid deck : (not in video)
Ilan RamonMichael AndersonDavid Brown
.

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Antonio Nariño Airport (IATA: PSO, ICAO: SKPS) is located in the town of Chachagüí and serves the city of Pasto, which is located 35km away from the airport. The airport only handles domestic flights in addition to military operations and private charters
ElevationAMSL: 5.951 ft
The airport's runway was built on a plateau of 50 meters because of the surrounding terrain. Due to this, many pilots refer to the airport as an aircraft carrier. The runway is also relatively short for the altitude at which the airport is at.
The position of the runway means that it is often rendered useless since, in the presence of crosswinds, it prevents aircraft making a safe take off and landing. Crosswinds are common during the summer, particularly during the month of August.
Since 2007, the runway has been equipped with an Localizer, which permits airport operations during the night and when there is low visibility. However, a suitable place is being sought for to build a new airport due to the big increase in passengers and cargo and also since the current airport is often closed due to poor weather conditions.
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The engineering aspects of flight are studied in aerospace engineering which is subdivided into aeronautics, the study of vehicles that travel through the air, and astronautics, the study of vehicles that travel through space, and in ballistics, the study of the flight of projectiles.

Types of flight

Buoyant flight

Humans have managed to construct lighter than air vehicles that raise off the ground and fly, due to their buoyancy in air.

Mission control center

A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission. It is part of the ground segment of spacecraft operations. A staff of flight controllers and other support personnel monitor all aspects of the mission using telemetry, and send commands to the vehicle using ground stations. Personnel supporting the mission from an MCC can include representatives of the attitude control system, power, propulsion, thermal, attitude dynamics, orbital operations and other subsystem disciplines. The training for these missions usually falls under the responsibility of the flight controllers, typically including extensive rehearsals in the MCC.

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Added subtitles to final moments of STS-107Space Shuttle Columbia Re-Entry Video
Here is a quick timeline of what occurred around the time of the video:
Video recording started at 08:41:35 a.m. (EST) February 1, 2003...
Video ends at 08:48:14 a.m. Shuttle is moving at mach 24.66 (18,771 mph) at an altitude of 230,348 ft.
The first indication that something is wrong occurs at 08:48:39 a.m ( 25 seconds after video ends ) when one of the Strain (correlates to force) gauge sensors on the left wing Fails (this is close to where a piece of foam had hit the space shuttle during launch)
Followed by the first sign of unusual Heating occurring at 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) when a Temperature sensor near one of the left wing panels that was hit by foam shows an abnormal increase.
Between 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) and 08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) a number of the sensors on the left side of the shuttle are showing some unusual readings.
08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) First signs of trouble begin to appear on right side of shuttle when approximately 10 percent of the strain gauges in the right wing show a small but unusual data trend.
After this point, heating abnormalities become more and more of a problem causing some holes in the left wing to allow hot gasses to enter the internals of the wing and create imbalances in the flow over the wing.
The shuttle is on auto-pilot and begins making small adjustments to compensate for the abnormal flows which are causing the shuttle to veer off its planned course.
08:53:45 a.m. ( 5 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) First report of debris observed leaving the orbiter.
For the next 5 minutes, multiple failures occur due to the excessive heat. Debris is seen leaving the orbiter from observers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico.
At 08:58:04 a.m. ( 9 minutes 5 seconds after video ends ) Very large adjustments are calculated by the auto-pilot to correct major flight instability.
08:58:20 a.m ( 9 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle crosses Mexico border into Texas.
08:58:48 a.m. ( 9 minutes 44 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle CommanderRick Husband transmits a radio communication "And, uh, Hou(ston)..."
08:59:32 a.m. ( 10 minutes 33 seconds after video ends ) Rick Husband transmits his last radio communication "Roger, uh buh (CUTOFF)" (Editor's note: Phonetically, sounded like first syllable of "before" or possibly "both;" he may have been responding to the BFS fault messages for both left-side main landing gear tires) This coincides with the INITIAL LOSS OF SIGNAL (LOS) at which point no data is able to be streamed to mission control.
MajorCrash/Breakup occurs around 09:00:02 a.m. A final data burst is transmitted from the shuttle but reports mostly errors and garbled data, only a few of the measurements could be analysed. ( 11 minutes 3 seconds after video ends )
At the time of breakup the shuttle was travelling about 12,500 mph at an altitude of 207,000 feet
Normally this onboard video would have recorded the entire landing sequence all the way to touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This video was recovered from the wreckage but the final moments were damaged and so it ends premature.
Unfortunate as it was, at the very least, the crew was doing something they loved. God bless them:
Commander: Rick D. Husband, a U.S. AirForce colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96).
Pilot: William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander
Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and
physicist who was in charge of the science mission.
Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer who was on her second space mission.
Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a U.S. Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.
Mission Specialist: Laurel Blair Salton Clark, a U.S. Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.

Subtitled Last COCKPIT Tape Shuttle Columbia Accident + Crew Audio

Subtitled last tape from the cockpit crew on the fatal re-entry. Space Shuttle ColumbiaSTS-107 was lost on its 28th mission
HQ version HERE: http://youtu.be/_rIHdk-_UoM .... The only surviving minutes on a piece of tape found on the ground ( +BBC in/outro) .. .. .►more info ►
Among the 80.000 recovered items later found on the ground was this videotape recording made by the astronauts during the start of re-entry. The 13-minute recording shows the flight crew astronauts conducting routine re-entry procedures and joking with each other. None gives any indication of a problem.
In this video, the flight-deck crew puts on their gloves and passes the video camera around to record plasma and flames visible outside the windows of the orbiter (a normal occurrence).
This recording, which on normal flights would have continued through landing, ends about four minutes before the shuttle began to disintegrate and 11 minutes before Mission Control lost the signal from the orbiter
Space ShuttleCrew:
flightdeck:
CommanderRick D. HusbandPilotWilliam C. McCoolMission Specialist4 Laurel B. Clark
Mission Specialist 2 Kalpana Chawla
Miid deck : (not in video)
Ilan RamonMichael AndersonDavid Brown
.

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Most Dangerous Landing in Colombia - Cockpit View [HD 1080p]

Most Dangerous Landing in Colombia - Cockpit View [HD 1080p]

Most Dangerous Landing in Colombia - Cockpit View [HD 1080p]

Read description
Antonio Nariño Airport (IATA: PSO, ICAO: SKPS) is located in the town of Chachagüí and serves the city of Pasto, which is located 35km away from the airport. The airport only handles domestic flights in addition to military operations and private charters
ElevationAMSL: 5.951 ft
The airport's runway was built on a plateau of 50 meters because of the surrounding terrain. Due to this, many pilots refer to the airport as an aircraft carrier. The runway is also relatively short for the altitude at which the airport is at.
The position of the runway means that it is often rendered useless since, in the presence of crosswinds, it prevents aircraft making a safe take off and landing. Crosswinds are common during the summer, particularly during the month of August.
Since 2007, the runway has been equipped with an Localizer, which permits airport operations during the night and when there is low visibility. However, a suitable place is being sought for to build a new airport due to the big increase in passengers and cargo and also since the current airport is often closed due to poor weather conditions.
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NASA briefing on Columbia shuttle tragedy

Houston, TexasFebruary 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
1. Shuttle tracking on screen
2. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Everything look good to you? Control and right seems normal right?"
3. UPSOUND Flight Control
"Control has been stable through the rolls that we've ..."
4. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Go ahead Max"
5. UPSOUND Flight Control
"FYII've just lost four seperate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle. The hydraulic return temperatures."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"From the very first indications that we had of the hydraulic return temperature indications failed, that gave me pause. There were several smaller events leading up to the loss of signal where I became increasingly concerned given that most of the activity in the sensors that were failed and the like was on the left wing. So there was som increasing concern."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
7. UPSOUND Flight Director
"ColumbiaHouston com check"
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"We had recieved some unconfirmed information based on some sightings and when I put that information with the known events that we already had it gave me great puase."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
9. UPSOUND Flight Director
"TC Flight, lock the doors."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"The first time I thought about that was the very first call from the mechanical systems officer, from Max, that said that flight max had lost four hydraulic return temperature indications."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
11. Flight Controller crying
12. Video screen of telemetry
STORYLINE:
The Columbia investigation board is trying to zero in on what caused the hole in the shuttle's aluminum skin that apparently allowed super-hot gases to penetrate the wing
and destroy the spacecraft.
The investigators have said that a gash or some other kind of
breach probably doomed the spacecraft.
The board is analyzing various possible causes for the breach.
One possibility, raised from the very start of the investigation, is that the shuttle was damaged by a hard piece of foam insulation that fell off the external fuel tank during liftoff.
On Friday, flight director Leroy Cain said that the foam debris immediately came to mind on Feb. 1 during the shuttle's final moments when he was first told of sensors breaking down in the spacecraft's left wing as it glided toward home.
"That gave me pause. That was the first time I had thought
about that debris hit we took on ascent," Cain said. But he said that when he learned about the sensor readings, he did not imagine that it would spell the end for the shuttle and its crew: "I did not think that we would lose it."
One by one, sensors embedded throughout Columbia's left wing
began recording unusual readings as the shuttle approached the California coast on Feb. 1. The precise meaning of those readings was not immediately clear to Mission Control, Cain said.
The wings have only a few sensors, not enough to confirm in real time whether the landing gear hatch had come open or had been breached to allow the superheated gases, called plasma, to penetrate the wing, he added.
Seven minutes after the first indication of a problem, Columbia broke up in the sky over Texas, killing its crew of seven.
In Mission Control, it took minutes for the flight team to
realize what had happened to Columbia. It was reports from the field, including TV images, that confirmed for the flight team that the mission had ended in disaster, Cain said.
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1:23:44

STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video timeline of the events).
I have tried to synch the video and audio from the three NASA sources and would guesstimate that I have gotten it as close as possible to real time, which, I felt, was very important for this video.
I would highly recommend listening to the audio with headphones or on well spaced apart speakers.
The video is dedicated to the crew of STS-107.
Thanks for reading this description - LM5
All photos/video/audio courtesy NASA unless stated otherwise.

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
STS-2MissionReport
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830001834_1983001834.pdf
A new epoch in space travel—the era of reusable space vehicles—opened with the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at
10:10 a.m EST, November 12, 1981. The manned Space Shuttle orbiterColumbia flew into space again, making It the first space vehicle to be used more than once—another step toward certifying Space Shuttle as an operational spacecraft.
Columbia is the first of four planned orbiters... This mission, called STS-2, is the second of four orbital flight tests designed to Improve and ready STS for
operational use...
The flight test was planned to last for more than five days. However, early on the first day, trouble developed in one of Columbia's fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen Into electrical power for the spacecraft and drinking water for the crew. With one of three fuel cells malfunctioning, mission safety rules called for STS-2 to be reduced to a minimal mission lasting 54 hours (36 orbits of Earth). After some
deliberation, test managers decided to go by the book. As a result, the crew—NASA astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot—reluctantly
cut short their space mission, landing Columbia at 4:23 p m. EST, November 14, at Edwards Air Force Base. California. Their total flight time was 2 days, 6
hours, 13 rnmutes and 12 seconds...
Among their major goals was the first test in space of a Canadian-built remote manipulator system. The system is comprised of a huge mechanical arm,
operating from Columbia's cavernous payload bay and guided by controls on Columbia's control deck. The system is designed to deploy payloads into orbit
and retrieve them, as well as for other freight -handling activities in space. The arm can even be used to reach around and inspect various external parts of Columbia. It has its own lighting system and closed circuit television so that the crews operating it have a close-up view of what they are doing.
The mechanical arm is jointed like a human arm at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Fully extended, it is 15.3 meters (50 feet) long. It is 38 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter. Despite its size, it is made of sturdy, lightweight materials giving it a weight on Earth of only 408 kilograms (900 pounds). The human analogy ends with the wrist. Its "hand," called an "end effector," consists of a snare wire device that can be
tightened around grapples attached to the payloads.
Engle and Truly operated the arm in all of its modes, ranging from fully automatic, in which it is programmed in advance by computer to perform a series of operations, to fully manual, in which it is operated directly from a control panel that bypasses the
computer...
In addition to gathering engineering dam, Columbia in STS-2 conducted experiments that would contribute to such fields as prospecting for oil, gas, coal, and minerals, locating promising ocean fishing grounds, understanding how gravity affects plant growth, forecasting thunderstorms and other severe weather, and measuring air pollution.

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a space shuttle into orbit had finally
begun.
In days gone by, the voice of "Mission Control" has always
been a familiar hallmark of American manned flights into space.
In the early days, beginning with "PROJECT MERCURY", the voice
was that of Col. John (Shorty) Powers. Later, during the
"APOLLO" program there were other voices; but regardless of who
it was, that familiar voice of "Mission Control" would always
stay with us throughout each space flight--that is, until this
time. This time the voice of Mission Control, up until the
moment of launch, was that of NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. The
last words Harris spoke as the voice of Mission Control were the
words you just heard: "The Shuttle has cleared the tower."
Television cameras followed the Shuttle as it climbed higher
and higher on a column of steam and smoke. For another 30
seconds or so, we were allowed to hear the slowly fading roar of
the Shuttle's rocket engines. Then the sounds from Mission
Control abruptly changed. Exactly 45 seconds after lift-off,
"live" audio from Mission Control was terminated. In its place
NASA began feeding the radio and television networks an elaborate
tape recording, which had been prepared far ahead of time by
NASA. The change-over from "live" audio to the NASA tape
recording sounded like this: (First, loud roaring for 10 seconds,
abruptly fading, then into a steadily increasing-in-loudness
humming-roaring for some 10 seconds.) "4-34...?" "Roger."
(More of the roaring sound.)
Just 45 seconds after lift-off, the falsified NASA coverage of
the flight of the "Columbia" began. We were still able to see
the Columbia by way of long-distance television cameras for
another minute and a half, but the sounds we were hearing were no
longer "live." They were the sounds of the special NASA tape
recording. For the first minute or so of the tape recording, we
heard nothing but the sound effects simulating conversation
between the Shuttle and NASA-Houston. Then, for the first time,
we heard the anonymous new voice of Mission Control. It was no
longer the familiar live voice of Hugh Harris, but the recorded
voice of someone else. For added realism, the new voice was
interrupted in turn by the recorded voice of the alleged capsule
communicator Daniel Brandenstein. It sounded like this: (first a
high-pitched screech followed by) "One minute 45 seconds, coming
up on go-go-go." "Columbia, you're negative seats." "That
call-up says that, Columbia, the altitude is too high for
ejection seat use."
By that point the shuttle Columbia was more than 20 miles
high, and climbing fast. Everything was going according to plan
so far, so the things we were hearing on the tape recording
corresponded to what we were seeing. We could still see the
Shuttle on our TV sets, but it had dwindled to nothing more than
three bright spots dancing in the distant sky.
The last thing that you and I were able to see and verify for
ourselves about the Shuttle was the separation of those two giant
solid-rocket boosters. A little over two minutes after liftoff,
we were able to watch the boosters, two burning bright spots,
break off to each side. That left only the single tiny flame of
the Shuttle itself, gradually fading into invisibility. Several
seconds later the NASA tape recording caught up with what we had
already seen, and said the boosters had separated. Moments later
the tiny bright dot of the Shuttle faded from our screens. It
was too far away for the television cameras to follow any longer.
We had had our last look at the real space shuttle Columbia!
In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 two months ago, I gave an advance alert
about the secret military mission of the space shuttle Columbia.
At that time I made public what the mission was really all about.
I was also able to reveal what to expect in the falsified NASA
coverage of the mission. ..."

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Added subtitles to final moments of STS-107Space Shuttle Columbia Re-Entry Video
Here is a quick timeline of what occurred around the time of the video:
Video recording started at 08:41:35 a.m. (EST) February 1, 2003...
Video ends at 08:48:14 a.m. Shuttle is moving at mach 24.66 (18,771 mph) at an altitude of 230,348 ft.
The first indication that something is wrong occurs at 08:48:39 a.m ( 25 seconds after video ends ) when one of the Strain (correlates to force) gauge sensors on the left wing Fails (this is close to where a piece of foam had hit the space shuttle during launch)
Followed by the first sign of unusual Heating occurring at 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) when a Temperature sensor near one of...

Subtitled Last COCKPIT Tape Shuttle Columbia Accident + Crew Audio

Subtitled last tape from the cockpit crew on the fatal re-entry. Space Shuttle ColumbiaSTS-107 was lost on its 28th mission
HQ version HERE: http://youtu.be/_rIHdk-_UoM .... The only surviving minutes on a piece of tape found on the ground ( +BBC in/outro) .. .. .►more info ►
Among the 80.000 recovered items later found on the ground was this videotape recording made by the astronauts during the start of re-entry. The 13-minute recording shows the flight crew astronauts conducting routine re-entry procedures and joking with each other. None gives any indication of a problem.
In this video, the flight-deck crew puts on their gloves and passes the video camera around to record plasma and flames visible outside the windows of the orbiter (a normal occurrence).
This recording, w...

published: 13 Dec 2009

Most Dangerous Landing in Colombia - Cockpit View [HD 1080p]

Read description
Antonio Nariño Airport (IATA: PSO, ICAO: SKPS) is located in the town of Chachagüí and serves the city of Pasto, which is located 35km away from the airport. The airport only handles domestic flights in addition to military operations and private charters
ElevationAMSL: 5.951 ft
The airport's runway was built on a plateau of 50 meters because of the surrounding terrain. Due to this, many pilots refer to the airport as an aircraft carrier. The runway is also relatively short for the altitude at which the airport is at.
The position of the runway means that it is often rendered useless since, in the presence of crosswinds, it prevents aircraft making a safe take off and landing. Crosswinds are common during the summer, particularly during the month of August.
Since 20...

NASA briefing on Columbia shuttle tragedy

Houston, TexasFebruary 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
1. Shuttle tracking on screen
2. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Everything look good to you? Control and right seems normal right?"
3. UPSOUND Flight Control
"Control has been stable through the rolls that we've ..."
4. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Go ahead Max"
5. UPSOUND Flight Control
"FYII've just lost four seperate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle. The hydraulic return temperatures."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"From the very first indications that we had of the hydraulic return temperature indications failed, that gave me pause. There were several smaller events leading up to the loss of signal where I became increasingly concerned given that most...

published: 21 Jul 2015

STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video time...

published: 22 May 2013

Columbia flight 8 30 PPG

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The s...

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a...

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Added subtitles to final moments of STS-107Space Shuttle Columbia Re-Entry Video
Here is a quick timeline of what occurred around the time of the video:
Video recording started at 08:41:35 a.m. (EST) February 1, 2003...
Video ends at 08:48:14 a.m. Shuttle is moving at mach 24.66 (18,771 mph) at an altitude of 230,348 ft.
The first indication that something is wrong occurs at 08:48:39 a.m ( 25 seconds after video ends ) when one of the Strain (correlates to force) gauge sensors on the left wing Fails (this is close to where a piece of foam had hit the space shuttle during launch)
Followed by the first sign of unusual Heating occurring at 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) when a Temperature sensor near one of the left wing panels that was hit by foam shows an abnormal increase.
Between 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) and 08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) a number of the sensors on the left side of the shuttle are showing some unusual readings.
08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) First signs of trouble begin to appear on right side of shuttle when approximately 10 percent of the strain gauges in the right wing show a small but unusual data trend.
After this point, heating abnormalities become more and more of a problem causing some holes in the left wing to allow hot gasses to enter the internals of the wing and create imbalances in the flow over the wing.
The shuttle is on auto-pilot and begins making small adjustments to compensate for the abnormal flows which are causing the shuttle to veer off its planned course.
08:53:45 a.m. ( 5 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) First report of debris observed leaving the orbiter.
For the next 5 minutes, multiple failures occur due to the excessive heat. Debris is seen leaving the orbiter from observers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico.
At 08:58:04 a.m. ( 9 minutes 5 seconds after video ends ) Very large adjustments are calculated by the auto-pilot to correct major flight instability.
08:58:20 a.m ( 9 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle crosses Mexico border into Texas.
08:58:48 a.m. ( 9 minutes 44 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle CommanderRick Husband transmits a radio communication "And, uh, Hou(ston)..."
08:59:32 a.m. ( 10 minutes 33 seconds after video ends ) Rick Husband transmits his last radio communication "Roger, uh buh (CUTOFF)" (Editor's note: Phonetically, sounded like first syllable of "before" or possibly "both;" he may have been responding to the BFS fault messages for both left-side main landing gear tires) This coincides with the INITIAL LOSS OF SIGNAL (LOS) at which point no data is able to be streamed to mission control.
MajorCrash/Breakup occurs around 09:00:02 a.m. A final data burst is transmitted from the shuttle but reports mostly errors and garbled data, only a few of the measurements could be analysed. ( 11 minutes 3 seconds after video ends )
At the time of breakup the shuttle was travelling about 12,500 mph at an altitude of 207,000 feet
Normally this onboard video would have recorded the entire landing sequence all the way to touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This video was recovered from the wreckage but the final moments were damaged and so it ends premature.
Unfortunate as it was, at the very least, the crew was doing something they loved. God bless them:
Commander: Rick D. Husband, a U.S. AirForce colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96).
Pilot: William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander
Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and
physicist who was in charge of the science mission.
Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer who was on her second space mission.
Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a U.S. Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.
Mission Specialist: Laurel Blair Salton Clark, a U.S. Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.

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Added subtitles to final moments of STS-107Space Shuttle Columbia Re-Entry Video
Here is a quick timeline of what occurred around the time of the video:
Video recording started at 08:41:35 a.m. (EST) February 1, 2003...
Video ends at 08:48:14 a.m. Shuttle is moving at mach 24.66 (18,771 mph) at an altitude of 230,348 ft.
The first indication that something is wrong occurs at 08:48:39 a.m ( 25 seconds after video ends ) when one of the Strain (correlates to force) gauge sensors on the left wing Fails (this is close to where a piece of foam had hit the space shuttle during launch)
Followed by the first sign of unusual Heating occurring at 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) when a Temperature sensor near one of the left wing panels that was hit by foam shows an abnormal increase.
Between 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) and 08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) a number of the sensors on the left side of the shuttle are showing some unusual readings.
08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) First signs of trouble begin to appear on right side of shuttle when approximately 10 percent of the strain gauges in the right wing show a small but unusual data trend.
After this point, heating abnormalities become more and more of a problem causing some holes in the left wing to allow hot gasses to enter the internals of the wing and create imbalances in the flow over the wing.
The shuttle is on auto-pilot and begins making small adjustments to compensate for the abnormal flows which are causing the shuttle to veer off its planned course.
08:53:45 a.m. ( 5 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) First report of debris observed leaving the orbiter.
For the next 5 minutes, multiple failures occur due to the excessive heat. Debris is seen leaving the orbiter from observers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico.
At 08:58:04 a.m. ( 9 minutes 5 seconds after video ends ) Very large adjustments are calculated by the auto-pilot to correct major flight instability.
08:58:20 a.m ( 9 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle crosses Mexico border into Texas.
08:58:48 a.m. ( 9 minutes 44 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle CommanderRick Husband transmits a radio communication "And, uh, Hou(ston)..."
08:59:32 a.m. ( 10 minutes 33 seconds after video ends ) Rick Husband transmits his last radio communication "Roger, uh buh (CUTOFF)" (Editor's note: Phonetically, sounded like first syllable of "before" or possibly "both;" he may have been responding to the BFS fault messages for both left-side main landing gear tires) This coincides with the INITIAL LOSS OF SIGNAL (LOS) at which point no data is able to be streamed to mission control.
MajorCrash/Breakup occurs around 09:00:02 a.m. A final data burst is transmitted from the shuttle but reports mostly errors and garbled data, only a few of the measurements could be analysed. ( 11 minutes 3 seconds after video ends )
At the time of breakup the shuttle was travelling about 12,500 mph at an altitude of 207,000 feet
Normally this onboard video would have recorded the entire landing sequence all the way to touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This video was recovered from the wreckage but the final moments were damaged and so it ends premature.
Unfortunate as it was, at the very least, the crew was doing something they loved. God bless them:
Commander: Rick D. Husband, a U.S. AirForce colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96).
Pilot: William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander
Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and
physicist who was in charge of the science mission.
Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer who was on her second space mission.
Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a U.S. Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.
Mission Specialist: Laurel Blair Salton Clark, a U.S. Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.

Subtitled last tape from the cockpit crew on the fatal re-entry. Space Shuttle ColumbiaSTS-107 was lost on its 28th mission
HQ version HERE: http://youtu.be/_rIHdk-_UoM .... The only surviving minutes on a piece of tape found on the ground ( +BBC in/outro) .. .. .►more info ►
Among the 80.000 recovered items later found on the ground was this videotape recording made by the astronauts during the start of re-entry. The 13-minute recording shows the flight crew astronauts conducting routine re-entry procedures and joking with each other. None gives any indication of a problem.
In this video, the flight-deck crew puts on their gloves and passes the video camera around to record plasma and flames visible outside the windows of the orbiter (a normal occurrence).
This recording, which on normal flights would have continued through landing, ends about four minutes before the shuttle began to disintegrate and 11 minutes before Mission Control lost the signal from the orbiter
Space ShuttleCrew:
flightdeck:
CommanderRick D. HusbandPilotWilliam C. McCoolMission Specialist4 Laurel B. Clark
Mission Specialist 2 Kalpana Chawla
Miid deck : (not in video)
Ilan RamonMichael AndersonDavid Brown
.

Subtitled last tape from the cockpit crew on the fatal re-entry. Space Shuttle ColumbiaSTS-107 was lost on its 28th mission
HQ version HERE: http://youtu.be/_rIHdk-_UoM .... The only surviving minutes on a piece of tape found on the ground ( +BBC in/outro) .. .. .►more info ►
Among the 80.000 recovered items later found on the ground was this videotape recording made by the astronauts during the start of re-entry. The 13-minute recording shows the flight crew astronauts conducting routine re-entry procedures and joking with each other. None gives any indication of a problem.
In this video, the flight-deck crew puts on their gloves and passes the video camera around to record plasma and flames visible outside the windows of the orbiter (a normal occurrence).
This recording, which on normal flights would have continued through landing, ends about four minutes before the shuttle began to disintegrate and 11 minutes before Mission Control lost the signal from the orbiter
Space ShuttleCrew:
flightdeck:
CommanderRick D. HusbandPilotWilliam C. McCoolMission Specialist4 Laurel B. Clark
Mission Specialist 2 Kalpana Chawla
Miid deck : (not in video)
Ilan RamonMichael AndersonDavid Brown
.

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Antonio Nariño Airport (IATA: PSO, ICAO: SKPS) is located in the town of Chachagüí and serves the city of Pasto, which is located 35km away from the airport. The airport only handles domestic flights in addition to military operations and private charters
ElevationAMSL: 5.951 ft
The airport's runway was built on a plateau of 50 meters because of the surrounding terrain. Due to this, many pilots refer to the airport as an aircraft carrier. The runway is also relatively short for the altitude at which the airport is at.
The position of the runway means that it is often rendered useless since, in the presence of crosswinds, it prevents aircraft making a safe take off and landing. Crosswinds are common during the summer, particularly during the month of August.
Since 2007, the runway has been equipped with an Localizer, which permits airport operations during the night and when there is low visibility. However, a suitable place is being sought for to build a new airport due to the big increase in passengers and cargo and also since the current airport is often closed due to poor weather conditions.
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Antonio Nariño Airport (IATA: PSO, ICAO: SKPS) is located in the town of Chachagüí and serves the city of Pasto, which is located 35km away from the airport. The airport only handles domestic flights in addition to military operations and private charters
ElevationAMSL: 5.951 ft
The airport's runway was built on a plateau of 50 meters because of the surrounding terrain. Due to this, many pilots refer to the airport as an aircraft carrier. The runway is also relatively short for the altitude at which the airport is at.
The position of the runway means that it is often rendered useless since, in the presence of crosswinds, it prevents aircraft making a safe take off and landing. Crosswinds are common during the summer, particularly during the month of August.
Since 2007, the runway has been equipped with an Localizer, which permits airport operations during the night and when there is low visibility. However, a suitable place is being sought for to build a new airport due to the big increase in passengers and cargo and also since the current airport is often closed due to poor weather conditions.
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* For licensing / permission to use: Contact - licensing(at)jukinmediadotcom

Houston, TexasFebruary 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
1. Shuttle tracking on screen
2. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Everything look good to you? Control and right seems normal right?"
3. UPSOUND Flight Control
"Control has been stable through the rolls that we've ..."
4. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Go ahead Max"
5. UPSOUND Flight Control
"FYII've just lost four seperate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle. The hydraulic return temperatures."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"From the very first indications that we had of the hydraulic return temperature indications failed, that gave me pause. There were several smaller events leading up to the loss of signal where I became increasingly concerned given that most of the activity in the sensors that were failed and the like was on the left wing. So there was som increasing concern."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
7. UPSOUND Flight Director
"ColumbiaHouston com check"
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"We had recieved some unconfirmed information based on some sightings and when I put that information with the known events that we already had it gave me great puase."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
9. UPSOUND Flight Director
"TC Flight, lock the doors."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"The first time I thought about that was the very first call from the mechanical systems officer, from Max, that said that flight max had lost four hydraulic return temperature indications."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
11. Flight Controller crying
12. Video screen of telemetry
STORYLINE:
The Columbia investigation board is trying to zero in on what caused the hole in the shuttle's aluminum skin that apparently allowed super-hot gases to penetrate the wing
and destroy the spacecraft.
The investigators have said that a gash or some other kind of
breach probably doomed the spacecraft.
The board is analyzing various possible causes for the breach.
One possibility, raised from the very start of the investigation, is that the shuttle was damaged by a hard piece of foam insulation that fell off the external fuel tank during liftoff.
On Friday, flight director Leroy Cain said that the foam debris immediately came to mind on Feb. 1 during the shuttle's final moments when he was first told of sensors breaking down in the spacecraft's left wing as it glided toward home.
"That gave me pause. That was the first time I had thought
about that debris hit we took on ascent," Cain said. But he said that when he learned about the sensor readings, he did not imagine that it would spell the end for the shuttle and its crew: "I did not think that we would lose it."
One by one, sensors embedded throughout Columbia's left wing
began recording unusual readings as the shuttle approached the California coast on Feb. 1. The precise meaning of those readings was not immediately clear to Mission Control, Cain said.
The wings have only a few sensors, not enough to confirm in real time whether the landing gear hatch had come open or had been breached to allow the superheated gases, called plasma, to penetrate the wing, he added.
Seven minutes after the first indication of a problem, Columbia broke up in the sky over Texas, killing its crew of seven.
In Mission Control, it took minutes for the flight team to
realize what had happened to Columbia. It was reports from the field, including TV images, that confirmed for the flight team that the mission had ended in disaster, Cain said.
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Houston, TexasFebruary 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
1. Shuttle tracking on screen
2. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Everything look good to you? Control and right seems normal right?"
3. UPSOUND Flight Control
"Control has been stable through the rolls that we've ..."
4. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Go ahead Max"
5. UPSOUND Flight Control
"FYII've just lost four seperate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle. The hydraulic return temperatures."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"From the very first indications that we had of the hydraulic return temperature indications failed, that gave me pause. There were several smaller events leading up to the loss of signal where I became increasingly concerned given that most of the activity in the sensors that were failed and the like was on the left wing. So there was som increasing concern."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
7. UPSOUND Flight Director
"ColumbiaHouston com check"
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"We had recieved some unconfirmed information based on some sightings and when I put that information with the known events that we already had it gave me great puase."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
9. UPSOUND Flight Director
"TC Flight, lock the doors."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"The first time I thought about that was the very first call from the mechanical systems officer, from Max, that said that flight max had lost four hydraulic return temperature indications."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
11. Flight Controller crying
12. Video screen of telemetry
STORYLINE:
The Columbia investigation board is trying to zero in on what caused the hole in the shuttle's aluminum skin that apparently allowed super-hot gases to penetrate the wing
and destroy the spacecraft.
The investigators have said that a gash or some other kind of
breach probably doomed the spacecraft.
The board is analyzing various possible causes for the breach.
One possibility, raised from the very start of the investigation, is that the shuttle was damaged by a hard piece of foam insulation that fell off the external fuel tank during liftoff.
On Friday, flight director Leroy Cain said that the foam debris immediately came to mind on Feb. 1 during the shuttle's final moments when he was first told of sensors breaking down in the spacecraft's left wing as it glided toward home.
"That gave me pause. That was the first time I had thought
about that debris hit we took on ascent," Cain said. But he said that when he learned about the sensor readings, he did not imagine that it would spell the end for the shuttle and its crew: "I did not think that we would lose it."
One by one, sensors embedded throughout Columbia's left wing
began recording unusual readings as the shuttle approached the California coast on Feb. 1. The precise meaning of those readings was not immediately clear to Mission Control, Cain said.
The wings have only a few sensors, not enough to confirm in real time whether the landing gear hatch had come open or had been breached to allow the superheated gases, called plasma, to penetrate the wing, he added.
Seven minutes after the first indication of a problem, Columbia broke up in the sky over Texas, killing its crew of seven.
In Mission Control, it took minutes for the flight team to
realize what had happened to Columbia. It was reports from the field, including TV images, that confirmed for the flight team that the mission had ended in disaster, Cain said.
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STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" ins...

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video timeline of the events).
I have tried to synch the video and audio from the three NASA sources and would guesstimate that I have gotten it as close as possible to real time, which, I felt, was very important for this video.
I would highly recommend listening to the audio with headphones or on well spaced apart speakers.
The video is dedicated to the crew of STS-107.
Thanks for reading this description - LM5
All photos/video/audio courtesy NASA unless stated otherwise.

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video timeline of the events).
I have tried to synch the video and audio from the three NASA sources and would guesstimate that I have gotten it as close as possible to real time, which, I felt, was very important for this video.
I would highly recommend listening to the audio with headphones or on well spaced apart speakers.
The video is dedicated to the crew of STS-107.
Thanks for reading this description - LM5
All photos/video/audio courtesy NASA unless stated otherwise.

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
STS-2MissionReport
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830001834_1983001834.pdf
A new epoch in space travel—the era of reusable space vehicles—opened with the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at
10:10 a.m EST, November 12, 1981. The manned Space Shuttle orbiterColumbia flew into space again, making It the first space vehicle to be used more than once—another step toward certifying Space Shuttle as an operational spacecraft.
Columbia is the first of four planned orbiters... This mission, called STS-2, is the second of four orbital flight tests designed to Improve and ready STS for
operational use...
The flight test was planned to last for more than five days. However, early on the first day, trouble developed in one of Columbia's fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen Into electrical power for the spacecraft and drinking water for the crew. With one of three fuel cells malfunctioning, mission safety rules called for STS-2 to be reduced to a minimal mission lasting 54 hours (36 orbits of Earth). After some
deliberation, test managers decided to go by the book. As a result, the crew—NASA astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot—reluctantly
cut short their space mission, landing Columbia at 4:23 p m. EST, November 14, at Edwards Air Force Base. California. Their total flight time was 2 days, 6
hours, 13 rnmutes and 12 seconds...
Among their major goals was the first test in space of a Canadian-built remote manipulator system. The system is comprised of a huge mechanical arm,
operating from Columbia's cavernous payload bay and guided by controls on Columbia's control deck. The system is designed to deploy payloads into orbit
and retrieve them, as well as for other freight -handling activities in space. The arm can even be used to reach around and inspect various external parts of Columbia. It has its own lighting system and closed circuit television so that the crews operating it have a close-up view of what they are doing.
The mechanical arm is jointed like a human arm at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Fully extended, it is 15.3 meters (50 feet) long. It is 38 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter. Despite its size, it is made of sturdy, lightweight materials giving it a weight on Earth of only 408 kilograms (900 pounds). The human analogy ends with the wrist. Its "hand," called an "end effector," consists of a snare wire device that can be
tightened around grapples attached to the payloads.
Engle and Truly operated the arm in all of its modes, ranging from fully automatic, in which it is programmed in advance by computer to perform a series of operations, to fully manual, in which it is operated directly from a control panel that bypasses the
computer...
In addition to gathering engineering dam, Columbia in STS-2 conducted experiments that would contribute to such fields as prospecting for oil, gas, coal, and minerals, locating promising ocean fishing grounds, understanding how gravity affects plant growth, forecasting thunderstorms and other severe weather, and measuring air pollution.

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
STS-2MissionReport
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830001834_1983001834.pdf
A new epoch in space travel—the era of reusable space vehicles—opened with the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at
10:10 a.m EST, November 12, 1981. The manned Space Shuttle orbiterColumbia flew into space again, making It the first space vehicle to be used more than once—another step toward certifying Space Shuttle as an operational spacecraft.
Columbia is the first of four planned orbiters... This mission, called STS-2, is the second of four orbital flight tests designed to Improve and ready STS for
operational use...
The flight test was planned to last for more than five days. However, early on the first day, trouble developed in one of Columbia's fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen Into electrical power for the spacecraft and drinking water for the crew. With one of three fuel cells malfunctioning, mission safety rules called for STS-2 to be reduced to a minimal mission lasting 54 hours (36 orbits of Earth). After some
deliberation, test managers decided to go by the book. As a result, the crew—NASA astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot—reluctantly
cut short their space mission, landing Columbia at 4:23 p m. EST, November 14, at Edwards Air Force Base. California. Their total flight time was 2 days, 6
hours, 13 rnmutes and 12 seconds...
Among their major goals was the first test in space of a Canadian-built remote manipulator system. The system is comprised of a huge mechanical arm,
operating from Columbia's cavernous payload bay and guided by controls on Columbia's control deck. The system is designed to deploy payloads into orbit
and retrieve them, as well as for other freight -handling activities in space. The arm can even be used to reach around and inspect various external parts of Columbia. It has its own lighting system and closed circuit television so that the crews operating it have a close-up view of what they are doing.
The mechanical arm is jointed like a human arm at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Fully extended, it is 15.3 meters (50 feet) long. It is 38 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter. Despite its size, it is made of sturdy, lightweight materials giving it a weight on Earth of only 408 kilograms (900 pounds). The human analogy ends with the wrist. Its "hand," called an "end effector," consists of a snare wire device that can be
tightened around grapples attached to the payloads.
Engle and Truly operated the arm in all of its modes, ranging from fully automatic, in which it is programmed in advance by computer to perform a series of operations, to fully manual, in which it is operated directly from a control panel that bypasses the
computer...
In addition to gathering engineering dam, Columbia in STS-2 conducted experiments that would contribute to such fields as prospecting for oil, gas, coal, and minerals, locating promising ocean fishing grounds, understanding how gravity affects plant growth, forecasting thunderstorms and other severe weather, and measuring air pollution.

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a space shuttle into orbit had finally
begun.
In days gone by, the voice of "Mission Control" has always
been a familiar hallmark of American manned flights into space.
In the early days, beginning with "PROJECT MERCURY", the voice
was that of Col. John (Shorty) Powers. Later, during the
"APOLLO" program there were other voices; but regardless of who
it was, that familiar voice of "Mission Control" would always
stay with us throughout each space flight--that is, until this
time. This time the voice of Mission Control, up until the
moment of launch, was that of NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. The
last words Harris spoke as the voice of Mission Control were the
words you just heard: "The Shuttle has cleared the tower."
Television cameras followed the Shuttle as it climbed higher
and higher on a column of steam and smoke. For another 30
seconds or so, we were allowed to hear the slowly fading roar of
the Shuttle's rocket engines. Then the sounds from Mission
Control abruptly changed. Exactly 45 seconds after lift-off,
"live" audio from Mission Control was terminated. In its place
NASA began feeding the radio and television networks an elaborate
tape recording, which had been prepared far ahead of time by
NASA. The change-over from "live" audio to the NASA tape
recording sounded like this: (First, loud roaring for 10 seconds,
abruptly fading, then into a steadily increasing-in-loudness
humming-roaring for some 10 seconds.) "4-34...?" "Roger."
(More of the roaring sound.)
Just 45 seconds after lift-off, the falsified NASA coverage of
the flight of the "Columbia" began. We were still able to see
the Columbia by way of long-distance television cameras for
another minute and a half, but the sounds we were hearing were no
longer "live." They were the sounds of the special NASA tape
recording. For the first minute or so of the tape recording, we
heard nothing but the sound effects simulating conversation
between the Shuttle and NASA-Houston. Then, for the first time,
we heard the anonymous new voice of Mission Control. It was no
longer the familiar live voice of Hugh Harris, but the recorded
voice of someone else. For added realism, the new voice was
interrupted in turn by the recorded voice of the alleged capsule
communicator Daniel Brandenstein. It sounded like this: (first a
high-pitched screech followed by) "One minute 45 seconds, coming
up on go-go-go." "Columbia, you're negative seats." "That
call-up says that, Columbia, the altitude is too high for
ejection seat use."
By that point the shuttle Columbia was more than 20 miles
high, and climbing fast. Everything was going according to plan
so far, so the things we were hearing on the tape recording
corresponded to what we were seeing. We could still see the
Shuttle on our TV sets, but it had dwindled to nothing more than
three bright spots dancing in the distant sky.
The last thing that you and I were able to see and verify for
ourselves about the Shuttle was the separation of those two giant
solid-rocket boosters. A little over two minutes after liftoff,
we were able to watch the boosters, two burning bright spots,
break off to each side. That left only the single tiny flame of
the Shuttle itself, gradually fading into invisibility. Several
seconds later the NASA tape recording caught up with what we had
already seen, and said the boosters had separated. Moments later
the tiny bright dot of the Shuttle faded from our screens. It
was too far away for the television cameras to follow any longer.
We had had our last look at the real space shuttle Columbia!
In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 two months ago, I gave an advance alert
about the secret military mission of the space shuttle Columbia.
At that time I made public what the mission was really all about.
I was also able to reveal what to expect in the falsified NASA
coverage of the mission. ..."

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a space shuttle into orbit had finally
begun.
In days gone by, the voice of "Mission Control" has always
been a familiar hallmark of American manned flights into space.
In the early days, beginning with "PROJECT MERCURY", the voice
was that of Col. John (Shorty) Powers. Later, during the
"APOLLO" program there were other voices; but regardless of who
it was, that familiar voice of "Mission Control" would always
stay with us throughout each space flight--that is, until this
time. This time the voice of Mission Control, up until the
moment of launch, was that of NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. The
last words Harris spoke as the voice of Mission Control were the
words you just heard: "The Shuttle has cleared the tower."
Television cameras followed the Shuttle as it climbed higher
and higher on a column of steam and smoke. For another 30
seconds or so, we were allowed to hear the slowly fading roar of
the Shuttle's rocket engines. Then the sounds from Mission
Control abruptly changed. Exactly 45 seconds after lift-off,
"live" audio from Mission Control was terminated. In its place
NASA began feeding the radio and television networks an elaborate
tape recording, which had been prepared far ahead of time by
NASA. The change-over from "live" audio to the NASA tape
recording sounded like this: (First, loud roaring for 10 seconds,
abruptly fading, then into a steadily increasing-in-loudness
humming-roaring for some 10 seconds.) "4-34...?" "Roger."
(More of the roaring sound.)
Just 45 seconds after lift-off, the falsified NASA coverage of
the flight of the "Columbia" began. We were still able to see
the Columbia by way of long-distance television cameras for
another minute and a half, but the sounds we were hearing were no
longer "live." They were the sounds of the special NASA tape
recording. For the first minute or so of the tape recording, we
heard nothing but the sound effects simulating conversation
between the Shuttle and NASA-Houston. Then, for the first time,
we heard the anonymous new voice of Mission Control. It was no
longer the familiar live voice of Hugh Harris, but the recorded
voice of someone else. For added realism, the new voice was
interrupted in turn by the recorded voice of the alleged capsule
communicator Daniel Brandenstein. It sounded like this: (first a
high-pitched screech followed by) "One minute 45 seconds, coming
up on go-go-go." "Columbia, you're negative seats." "That
call-up says that, Columbia, the altitude is too high for
ejection seat use."
By that point the shuttle Columbia was more than 20 miles
high, and climbing fast. Everything was going according to plan
so far, so the things we were hearing on the tape recording
corresponded to what we were seeing. We could still see the
Shuttle on our TV sets, but it had dwindled to nothing more than
three bright spots dancing in the distant sky.
The last thing that you and I were able to see and verify for
ourselves about the Shuttle was the separation of those two giant
solid-rocket boosters. A little over two minutes after liftoff,
we were able to watch the boosters, two burning bright spots,
break off to each side. That left only the single tiny flame of
the Shuttle itself, gradually fading into invisibility. Several
seconds later the NASA tape recording caught up with what we had
already seen, and said the boosters had separated. Moments later
the tiny bright dot of the Shuttle faded from our screens. It
was too far away for the television cameras to follow any longer.
We had had our last look at the real space shuttle Columbia!
In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 two months ago, I gave an advance alert
about the secret military mission of the space shuttle Columbia.
At that time I made public what the mission was really all about.
I was also able to reveal what to expect in the falsified NASA
coverage of the mission. ..."

STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video time...

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The s...

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a...

published: 17 Oct 2014

Airport Security Colombia: High Heels

Landing of the first Space Shuttle (STS-1) - Full Coverage of the Historical Event - worth seeing

Columbia was the first space shuttle aircraft to reach space, in 1981. Columbia (STS-1) carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, reaching several milestones. Columbia also underwent upgrades as technology advanced.
Event starts: 0:01
LandingCoverage starts 01:02:09
Landing 01:09:00
Discussions on developing a reusable spacecraft began in earnest in 1966, when NASA was looking to figure out what programs would come after Apollo. While NASA was tasked with beginning the work, development was held off for years by budgetary constraints, according to NASA Historical documentary.
With Columbia on the runway at Edwards, Challenger and the SCA took off on July 4 under the watchful eye of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan. One day later, Challenger arrived at the Ke...

The Greatest Test Flight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)

The GreatestTestFlight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)
STS-1 - Columbia - April 12-14 1981 - Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR) and Bob Crippen (PLT).
This is the third video of an intended series which will cover the first Space Shuttle flight from countdown to touchdown.
Part 03 - The Countdown for the launch continuesand concludes with the sucessfull launch of Columbia and her crew. The video ends with orbit and the 1st of two planned OMS burns achieved .
Some video was substituted where it wasnt available - for instance I have used some static pad shots from the April 10th attempt. The final countdown from T-20 minutes is as broadcast and the launch includes the broadcast views along with a previous video (STS-1 multi screen) and some video from the post flight press conference. ...

STS-107 Re-entry live NASA TV coverage of the Columbia accident

This is the live NASA Television broadcast with commentary of the ill-fated re-entry and destruction of space shuttle Columbia which killed the seven astronauts on board 16 minutes before landing on February 1, 2003.

The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on April 12, l98l, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center.-- the first of 24 launches from Pad A. It was exactly 7 a.m.EST. A launch attempt, 2 days before, was scrubbed because of a timing problem in one of the Columbia's general purpose computers.
Not only was this the first launch of the Space Shuttle, but it marked the first time that solid fuel rockets were used for a U.S. manned launch. The STS-l orbiter, Columbia, also holds the record for the amount of time spent in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) before launch -- 610 days, time needed for replacement of many of its heat shield tile...

published: 29 Jun 2017

Flight vintage 1994, Shuttle Columbia on 747 STA Houston TX EFD

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.html
"An astronaut's eye view of what happens inside the flight deck during landing... at the Kennedy Space Center. This footage was taken onboard Space Shuttle mission STS-65, the mission that launched the InternationalMicrogravity Laboratory in 1994. This raw footage could be useful for classroom launch simulations." The original footage was shot on a CanonHi-8 camcorder.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is f...

TRIP REPORT - American Airlines, Columbia (COU) to Chicago (ORD)

It's trip report time! This summer (while I was living in Jefferson City), I was invited by some friends of mine who live in Chicago to come up to see a David Gray concert and to check out the city while I was there. I'm never one to turn down free tickets, but I had a few issues. Problem 1: They had no room for me in the apartment. Problem 2: Chicago is about a 6-7 hour drive from Jeff City and parking in downtown Chicago is prohibitively expensive. I pretty much wrote off the idea of making the trip until I remembered that American offered a few daily flights up to Chicago out of our local regional airport. The price turned out to be very reasonable, so I nabbed a room on sale on hotels.com and booked the flight. It ended up being well worth it--I had a great time in the city a...

STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" ins...

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video timeline of the events).
I have tried to synch the video and audio from the three NASA sources and would guesstimate that I have gotten it as close as possible to real time, which, I felt, was very important for this video.
I would highly recommend listening to the audio with headphones or on well spaced apart speakers.
The video is dedicated to the crew of STS-107.
Thanks for reading this description - LM5
All photos/video/audio courtesy NASA unless stated otherwise.

Please read this description:
STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video timeline of the events).
I have tried to synch the video and audio from the three NASA sources and would guesstimate that I have gotten it as close as possible to real time, which, I felt, was very important for this video.
I would highly recommend listening to the audio with headphones or on well spaced apart speakers.
The video is dedicated to the crew of STS-107.
Thanks for reading this description - LM5
All photos/video/audio courtesy NASA unless stated otherwise.

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
STS-2MissionReport
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830001834_1983001834.pdf
A new epoch in space travel—the era of reusable space vehicles—opened with the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at
10:10 a.m EST, November 12, 1981. The manned Space Shuttle orbiterColumbia flew into space again, making It the first space vehicle to be used more than once—another step toward certifying Space Shuttle as an operational spacecraft.
Columbia is the first of four planned orbiters... This mission, called STS-2, is the second of four orbital flight tests designed to Improve and ready STS for
operational use...
The flight test was planned to last for more than five days. However, early on the first day, trouble developed in one of Columbia's fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen Into electrical power for the spacecraft and drinking water for the crew. With one of three fuel cells malfunctioning, mission safety rules called for STS-2 to be reduced to a minimal mission lasting 54 hours (36 orbits of Earth). After some
deliberation, test managers decided to go by the book. As a result, the crew—NASA astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot—reluctantly
cut short their space mission, landing Columbia at 4:23 p m. EST, November 14, at Edwards Air Force Base. California. Their total flight time was 2 days, 6
hours, 13 rnmutes and 12 seconds...
Among their major goals was the first test in space of a Canadian-built remote manipulator system. The system is comprised of a huge mechanical arm,
operating from Columbia's cavernous payload bay and guided by controls on Columbia's control deck. The system is designed to deploy payloads into orbit
and retrieve them, as well as for other freight -handling activities in space. The arm can even be used to reach around and inspect various external parts of Columbia. It has its own lighting system and closed circuit television so that the crews operating it have a close-up view of what they are doing.
The mechanical arm is jointed like a human arm at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Fully extended, it is 15.3 meters (50 feet) long. It is 38 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter. Despite its size, it is made of sturdy, lightweight materials giving it a weight on Earth of only 408 kilograms (900 pounds). The human analogy ends with the wrist. Its "hand," called an "end effector," consists of a snare wire device that can be
tightened around grapples attached to the payloads.
Engle and Truly operated the arm in all of its modes, ranging from fully automatic, in which it is programmed in advance by computer to perform a series of operations, to fully manual, in which it is operated directly from a control panel that bypasses the
computer...
In addition to gathering engineering dam, Columbia in STS-2 conducted experiments that would contribute to such fields as prospecting for oil, gas, coal, and minerals, locating promising ocean fishing grounds, understanding how gravity affects plant growth, forecasting thunderstorms and other severe weather, and measuring air pollution.

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
STS-2MissionReport
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830001834_1983001834.pdf
A new epoch in space travel—the era of reusable space vehicles—opened with the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at
10:10 a.m EST, November 12, 1981. The manned Space Shuttle orbiterColumbia flew into space again, making It the first space vehicle to be used more than once—another step toward certifying Space Shuttle as an operational spacecraft.
Columbia is the first of four planned orbiters... This mission, called STS-2, is the second of four orbital flight tests designed to Improve and ready STS for
operational use...
The flight test was planned to last for more than five days. However, early on the first day, trouble developed in one of Columbia's fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen Into electrical power for the spacecraft and drinking water for the crew. With one of three fuel cells malfunctioning, mission safety rules called for STS-2 to be reduced to a minimal mission lasting 54 hours (36 orbits of Earth). After some
deliberation, test managers decided to go by the book. As a result, the crew—NASA astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot—reluctantly
cut short their space mission, landing Columbia at 4:23 p m. EST, November 14, at Edwards Air Force Base. California. Their total flight time was 2 days, 6
hours, 13 rnmutes and 12 seconds...
Among their major goals was the first test in space of a Canadian-built remote manipulator system. The system is comprised of a huge mechanical arm,
operating from Columbia's cavernous payload bay and guided by controls on Columbia's control deck. The system is designed to deploy payloads into orbit
and retrieve them, as well as for other freight -handling activities in space. The arm can even be used to reach around and inspect various external parts of Columbia. It has its own lighting system and closed circuit television so that the crews operating it have a close-up view of what they are doing.
The mechanical arm is jointed like a human arm at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Fully extended, it is 15.3 meters (50 feet) long. It is 38 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter. Despite its size, it is made of sturdy, lightweight materials giving it a weight on Earth of only 408 kilograms (900 pounds). The human analogy ends with the wrist. Its "hand," called an "end effector," consists of a snare wire device that can be
tightened around grapples attached to the payloads.
Engle and Truly operated the arm in all of its modes, ranging from fully automatic, in which it is programmed in advance by computer to perform a series of operations, to fully manual, in which it is operated directly from a control panel that bypasses the
computer...
In addition to gathering engineering dam, Columbia in STS-2 conducted experiments that would contribute to such fields as prospecting for oil, gas, coal, and minerals, locating promising ocean fishing grounds, understanding how gravity affects plant growth, forecasting thunderstorms and other severe weather, and measuring air pollution.

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a space shuttle into orbit had finally
begun.
In days gone by, the voice of "Mission Control" has always
been a familiar hallmark of American manned flights into space.
In the early days, beginning with "PROJECT MERCURY", the voice
was that of Col. John (Shorty) Powers. Later, during the
"APOLLO" program there were other voices; but regardless of who
it was, that familiar voice of "Mission Control" would always
stay with us throughout each space flight--that is, until this
time. This time the voice of Mission Control, up until the
moment of launch, was that of NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. The
last words Harris spoke as the voice of Mission Control were the
words you just heard: "The Shuttle has cleared the tower."
Television cameras followed the Shuttle as it climbed higher
and higher on a column of steam and smoke. For another 30
seconds or so, we were allowed to hear the slowly fading roar of
the Shuttle's rocket engines. Then the sounds from Mission
Control abruptly changed. Exactly 45 seconds after lift-off,
"live" audio from Mission Control was terminated. In its place
NASA began feeding the radio and television networks an elaborate
tape recording, which had been prepared far ahead of time by
NASA. The change-over from "live" audio to the NASA tape
recording sounded like this: (First, loud roaring for 10 seconds,
abruptly fading, then into a steadily increasing-in-loudness
humming-roaring for some 10 seconds.) "4-34...?" "Roger."
(More of the roaring sound.)
Just 45 seconds after lift-off, the falsified NASA coverage of
the flight of the "Columbia" began. We were still able to see
the Columbia by way of long-distance television cameras for
another minute and a half, but the sounds we were hearing were no
longer "live." They were the sounds of the special NASA tape
recording. For the first minute or so of the tape recording, we
heard nothing but the sound effects simulating conversation
between the Shuttle and NASA-Houston. Then, for the first time,
we heard the anonymous new voice of Mission Control. It was no
longer the familiar live voice of Hugh Harris, but the recorded
voice of someone else. For added realism, the new voice was
interrupted in turn by the recorded voice of the alleged capsule
communicator Daniel Brandenstein. It sounded like this: (first a
high-pitched screech followed by) "One minute 45 seconds, coming
up on go-go-go." "Columbia, you're negative seats." "That
call-up says that, Columbia, the altitude is too high for
ejection seat use."
By that point the shuttle Columbia was more than 20 miles
high, and climbing fast. Everything was going according to plan
so far, so the things we were hearing on the tape recording
corresponded to what we were seeing. We could still see the
Shuttle on our TV sets, but it had dwindled to nothing more than
three bright spots dancing in the distant sky.
The last thing that you and I were able to see and verify for
ourselves about the Shuttle was the separation of those two giant
solid-rocket boosters. A little over two minutes after liftoff,
we were able to watch the boosters, two burning bright spots,
break off to each side. That left only the single tiny flame of
the Shuttle itself, gradually fading into invisibility. Several
seconds later the NASA tape recording caught up with what we had
already seen, and said the boosters had separated. Moments later
the tiny bright dot of the Shuttle faded from our screens. It
was too far away for the television cameras to follow any longer.
We had had our last look at the real space shuttle Columbia!
In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 two months ago, I gave an advance alert
about the secret military mission of the space shuttle Columbia.
At that time I made public what the mission was really all about.
I was also able to reveal what to expect in the falsified NASA
coverage of the mission. ..."

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a space shuttle into orbit had finally
begun.
In days gone by, the voice of "Mission Control" has always
been a familiar hallmark of American manned flights into space.
In the early days, beginning with "PROJECT MERCURY", the voice
was that of Col. John (Shorty) Powers. Later, during the
"APOLLO" program there were other voices; but regardless of who
it was, that familiar voice of "Mission Control" would always
stay with us throughout each space flight--that is, until this
time. This time the voice of Mission Control, up until the
moment of launch, was that of NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. The
last words Harris spoke as the voice of Mission Control were the
words you just heard: "The Shuttle has cleared the tower."
Television cameras followed the Shuttle as it climbed higher
and higher on a column of steam and smoke. For another 30
seconds or so, we were allowed to hear the slowly fading roar of
the Shuttle's rocket engines. Then the sounds from Mission
Control abruptly changed. Exactly 45 seconds after lift-off,
"live" audio from Mission Control was terminated. In its place
NASA began feeding the radio and television networks an elaborate
tape recording, which had been prepared far ahead of time by
NASA. The change-over from "live" audio to the NASA tape
recording sounded like this: (First, loud roaring for 10 seconds,
abruptly fading, then into a steadily increasing-in-loudness
humming-roaring for some 10 seconds.) "4-34...?" "Roger."
(More of the roaring sound.)
Just 45 seconds after lift-off, the falsified NASA coverage of
the flight of the "Columbia" began. We were still able to see
the Columbia by way of long-distance television cameras for
another minute and a half, but the sounds we were hearing were no
longer "live." They were the sounds of the special NASA tape
recording. For the first minute or so of the tape recording, we
heard nothing but the sound effects simulating conversation
between the Shuttle and NASA-Houston. Then, for the first time,
we heard the anonymous new voice of Mission Control. It was no
longer the familiar live voice of Hugh Harris, but the recorded
voice of someone else. For added realism, the new voice was
interrupted in turn by the recorded voice of the alleged capsule
communicator Daniel Brandenstein. It sounded like this: (first a
high-pitched screech followed by) "One minute 45 seconds, coming
up on go-go-go." "Columbia, you're negative seats." "That
call-up says that, Columbia, the altitude is too high for
ejection seat use."
By that point the shuttle Columbia was more than 20 miles
high, and climbing fast. Everything was going according to plan
so far, so the things we were hearing on the tape recording
corresponded to what we were seeing. We could still see the
Shuttle on our TV sets, but it had dwindled to nothing more than
three bright spots dancing in the distant sky.
The last thing that you and I were able to see and verify for
ourselves about the Shuttle was the separation of those two giant
solid-rocket boosters. A little over two minutes after liftoff,
we were able to watch the boosters, two burning bright spots,
break off to each side. That left only the single tiny flame of
the Shuttle itself, gradually fading into invisibility. Several
seconds later the NASA tape recording caught up with what we had
already seen, and said the boosters had separated. Moments later
the tiny bright dot of the Shuttle faded from our screens. It
was too far away for the television cameras to follow any longer.
We had had our last look at the real space shuttle Columbia!
In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 two months ago, I gave an advance alert
about the secret military mission of the space shuttle Columbia.
At that time I made public what the mission was really all about.
I was also able to reveal what to expect in the falsified NASA
coverage of the mission. ..."

Landing of the first Space Shuttle (STS-1) - Full Coverage of the Historical Event - worth seeing

Columbia was the first space shuttle aircraft to reach space, in 1981. Columbia (STS-1) carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, rea...

Columbia was the first space shuttle aircraft to reach space, in 1981. Columbia (STS-1) carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, reaching several milestones. Columbia also underwent upgrades as technology advanced.
Event starts: 0:01
LandingCoverage starts 01:02:09
Landing 01:09:00
Discussions on developing a reusable spacecraft began in earnest in 1966, when NASA was looking to figure out what programs would come after Apollo. While NASA was tasked with beginning the work, development was held off for years by budgetary constraints, according to NASA Historical documentary.
With Columbia on the runway at Edwards, Challenger and the SCA took off on July 4 under the watchful eye of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan. One day later, Challenger arrived at the Kennedy Space Center.
Some compromises were made in the design in response to budgetary constraints and input from the aircraft, which was expected to be a major customer of the shuttle. For example, the size of the cargo bay was increased to accommodate large military satellites. Also, it was decided to make the shuttle only partially reusable instead of fully reusable to save on development costs, although critics noted this would increase the costs of individual flights.

Columbia was the first space shuttle aircraft to reach space, in 1981. Columbia (STS-1) carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, reaching several milestones. Columbia also underwent upgrades as technology advanced.
Event starts: 0:01
LandingCoverage starts 01:02:09
Landing 01:09:00
Discussions on developing a reusable spacecraft began in earnest in 1966, when NASA was looking to figure out what programs would come after Apollo. While NASA was tasked with beginning the work, development was held off for years by budgetary constraints, according to NASA Historical documentary.
With Columbia on the runway at Edwards, Challenger and the SCA took off on July 4 under the watchful eye of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan. One day later, Challenger arrived at the Kennedy Space Center.
Some compromises were made in the design in response to budgetary constraints and input from the aircraft, which was expected to be a major customer of the shuttle. For example, the size of the cargo bay was increased to accommodate large military satellites. Also, it was decided to make the shuttle only partially reusable instead of fully reusable to save on development costs, although critics noted this would increase the costs of individual flights.

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"This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Colu...

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"This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California."
NASA film JSC-814
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts.
from the STS-1Press Kit
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20040050928_2004048426.pdfThe SpaceShuttle orbiter Columbia, first in a planned fleet of spacecraft in the nation's Space Transportation System, will liftoff on its first orbital shakedown flight in April 1981. Launch will be no earlier than 45 minutes after sunrise from the NASA Kennedy Space CenterLaunch Complex 39A.
Crew for the first orbital flight will be John W. Young, commander, veteran of two Gemini and two Apollo space flights, and U.S. Navy Capt. Robert L. Crippen, pilot. Crippen has not flown in space.
Columbia will have no payloads in the payload bay on this first orbital flight, but will carry instrumentation for measuring orbiter systems performance in space and during its glide through the atmosphere to a landing after 54 1/2 hours.
Extensive testing of orbiter systems, including the space radiators and other heat rejection systems, fills most of the STS-1 mission timeline. The clamshell-like doors on Columbia's 4.6 by 18-meter (15 by 60-foot) payload bay will be opened and closed twice during the flight for testing door actuators and latch mechanisms in the space environment. Other tests will measure performance of maneuvering and attitude thrusters, the Columbia's computer array and avionics "black boxes," and, during entry, silica-tile heatshield temperatures.
The first of four engineering test flights, STS-1, will be launched into a 40.3 degree inclination orbit circularized first at 241 kilometers (130 nautical miles) and later boosted to 278 km (150 nm). Columbia will be used in these four test flights in proving the combined booster and orbiter combination before the Space Transportation System becomes operational with STS-5, now forecast for launch in September 1982.
After "tower clear" the launch team in the Kennedy Space Center FiringRoom will hand over STS-1 control to flight controllers in the Mission Control Center, Houston, for the remainder of the flight.
Columbia's two orbital maneuvering system hypergolic engines will fire at approximately 53 1/2 hours over the Indian ocean to bring the spacecraft to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., an hour later. The approach to landing will cross the California coast near Big Sur at 42,670 m (140,000 ft.) altitude, pass over Bakersfield and Mojave, and end with a sweeping 225-degree left turn onto final approach.
Young and Crippen will land Columbia manually on this first test flight. A microwave landing system on the ground will be the primary landing aid in subsequent flights, with optional manual takeover. Kennedy landing teams will remove the flight crew and "safe" the orbiter after landing. The first three test flights land on Rogers Dry Lake, the fourth on the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base, and STS-5 will land on the 4,570-m (15,000-ft.) concrete Shuttle Landing Facility runway at Kennedy Space Center.
STS-1 will be the first manned flight using solid rocket boosters. No previous U.S. space vehicle has been manned on its maiden flight.
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"This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California."
NASA film JSC-814
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts.
from the STS-1Press Kit
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20040050928_2004048426.pdfThe SpaceShuttle orbiter Columbia, first in a planned fleet of spacecraft in the nation's Space Transportation System, will liftoff on its first orbital shakedown flight in April 1981. Launch will be no earlier than 45 minutes after sunrise from the NASA Kennedy Space CenterLaunch Complex 39A.
Crew for the first orbital flight will be John W. Young, commander, veteran of two Gemini and two Apollo space flights, and U.S. Navy Capt. Robert L. Crippen, pilot. Crippen has not flown in space.
Columbia will have no payloads in the payload bay on this first orbital flight, but will carry instrumentation for measuring orbiter systems performance in space and during its glide through the atmosphere to a landing after 54 1/2 hours.
Extensive testing of orbiter systems, including the space radiators and other heat rejection systems, fills most of the STS-1 mission timeline. The clamshell-like doors on Columbia's 4.6 by 18-meter (15 by 60-foot) payload bay will be opened and closed twice during the flight for testing door actuators and latch mechanisms in the space environment. Other tests will measure performance of maneuvering and attitude thrusters, the Columbia's computer array and avionics "black boxes," and, during entry, silica-tile heatshield temperatures.
The first of four engineering test flights, STS-1, will be launched into a 40.3 degree inclination orbit circularized first at 241 kilometers (130 nautical miles) and later boosted to 278 km (150 nm). Columbia will be used in these four test flights in proving the combined booster and orbiter combination before the Space Transportation System becomes operational with STS-5, now forecast for launch in September 1982.
After "tower clear" the launch team in the Kennedy Space Center FiringRoom will hand over STS-1 control to flight controllers in the Mission Control Center, Houston, for the remainder of the flight.
Columbia's two orbital maneuvering system hypergolic engines will fire at approximately 53 1/2 hours over the Indian ocean to bring the spacecraft to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., an hour later. The approach to landing will cross the California coast near Big Sur at 42,670 m (140,000 ft.) altitude, pass over Bakersfield and Mojave, and end with a sweeping 225-degree left turn onto final approach.
Young and Crippen will land Columbia manually on this first test flight. A microwave landing system on the ground will be the primary landing aid in subsequent flights, with optional manual takeover. Kennedy landing teams will remove the flight crew and "safe" the orbiter after landing. The first three test flights land on Rogers Dry Lake, the fourth on the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base, and STS-5 will land on the 4,570-m (15,000-ft.) concrete Shuttle Landing Facility runway at Kennedy Space Center.
STS-1 will be the first manned flight using solid rocket boosters. No previous U.S. space vehicle has been manned on its maiden flight.
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The GreatestTestFlight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)
STS-1 - Columbia - April 12-14 1981 - Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR) and Bob Crippen (PLT).
This is the third video of an intended series which will cover the first Space Shuttle flight from countdown to touchdown.
Part 03 - The Countdown for the launch continuesand concludes with the sucessfull launch of Columbia and her crew. The video ends with orbit and the 1st of two planned OMS burns achieved .
Some video was substituted where it wasnt available - for instance I have used some static pad shots from the April 10th attempt. The final countdown from T-20 minutes is as broadcast and the launch includes the broadcast views along with a previous video (STS-1 multi screen) and some video from the post flight press conference. Countdown and PostLaunch clock is for reference only and is not accurate to the timeline. Captions are used to inform the viewer what he/she is watching. Photos have been added where appropriate. To complete the sequence OrbiterSpaceSimulator has been used from SRBSEP through to the OMS burn.
The video is captured on a 16:9 screen to allow captioning and photos/video to be shown by the side of the main screen.
Audio is in two channels. One covers the PAO channel and the other is the launch director loops which carried the comm from the launch team at the Cape.
My personal thanks to JL Pickering and Ed Hengveld who produce excellent photo CDs of space missions that really enhanced the video.
All video/pictures and audio is courtesy NASA.﻿

The GreatestTestFlight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)
STS-1 - Columbia - April 12-14 1981 - Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR) and Bob Crippen (PLT).
This is the third video of an intended series which will cover the first Space Shuttle flight from countdown to touchdown.
Part 03 - The Countdown for the launch continuesand concludes with the sucessfull launch of Columbia and her crew. The video ends with orbit and the 1st of two planned OMS burns achieved .
Some video was substituted where it wasnt available - for instance I have used some static pad shots from the April 10th attempt. The final countdown from T-20 minutes is as broadcast and the launch includes the broadcast views along with a previous video (STS-1 multi screen) and some video from the post flight press conference. Countdown and PostLaunch clock is for reference only and is not accurate to the timeline. Captions are used to inform the viewer what he/she is watching. Photos have been added where appropriate. To complete the sequence OrbiterSpaceSimulator has been used from SRBSEP through to the OMS burn.
The video is captured on a 16:9 screen to allow captioning and photos/video to be shown by the side of the main screen.
Audio is in two channels. One covers the PAO channel and the other is the launch director loops which carried the comm from the launch team at the Cape.
My personal thanks to JL Pickering and Ed Hengveld who produce excellent photo CDs of space missions that really enhanced the video.
All video/pictures and audio is courtesy NASA.﻿

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Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Over 22 years of service it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on February 1, 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.
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Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Over 22 years of service it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on February 1, 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.
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STS-107 Re-entry live NASA TV coverage of the Columbia accident

This is the live NASA Television broadcast with commentary of the ill-fated re-entry and destruction of space shuttle Columbia which killed the seven astronauts...

This is the live NASA Television broadcast with commentary of the ill-fated re-entry and destruction of space shuttle Columbia which killed the seven astronauts on board 16 minutes before landing on February 1, 2003.

This is the live NASA Television broadcast with commentary of the ill-fated re-entry and destruction of space shuttle Columbia which killed the seven astronauts on board 16 minutes before landing on February 1, 2003.

The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on April 12, l98l, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center.-- the first of 24 launches from Pad A. It was exactly 7 a.m.EST. A launch attempt, 2 days before, was scrubbed because of a timing problem in one of the Columbia's general purpose computers.
Not only was this the first launch of the Space Shuttle, but it marked the first time that solid fuel rockets were used for a U.S. manned launch. The STS-l orbiter, Columbia, also holds the record for the amount of time spent in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) before launch -- 610 days, time needed for replacement of many of its heat shield tiles.
Primary mission objectives of the maiden flight were to check out the overall Shuttle system, accomplish a safe ascent into orbit and to return to Earth for a safe landing. All of these objectives were met successfully and the Shuttle's worthiness as a space vehicle was verified.
The only payload carried on the mission was a DevelopmentFlight Instrumentation (DFI) package which contained sensors and measuring devices to record orbiter performance and the stresses that occurred during launch, ascent, orbital flight, descent and landing.
The 36-orbit, 933,757-mile-long flight lasted 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes and 32 seconds. Landing took place on Runway 23 at Edwards AFB, Calif., on April 14, 1981, at 10:21 a.m. PST. Post-flight inspection of the Columbia revealed that an overpressure wave which occurred when the SRB ignited resulted in the loss of 16 heat shield tiles and damage to 148 others. In all other respects, however, Columbia came through the flight with flying colors, and it was to fly the next four Shuttle missions.
Columbia was returned to Kennedy Space Center from California on April 28 atop its 747 carrier aircraft.

The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on April 12, l98l, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center.-- the first of 24 launches from Pad A. It was exactly 7 a.m.EST. A launch attempt, 2 days before, was scrubbed because of a timing problem in one of the Columbia's general purpose computers.
Not only was this the first launch of the Space Shuttle, but it marked the first time that solid fuel rockets were used for a U.S. manned launch. The STS-l orbiter, Columbia, also holds the record for the amount of time spent in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) before launch -- 610 days, time needed for replacement of many of its heat shield tiles.
Primary mission objectives of the maiden flight were to check out the overall Shuttle system, accomplish a safe ascent into orbit and to return to Earth for a safe landing. All of these objectives were met successfully and the Shuttle's worthiness as a space vehicle was verified.
The only payload carried on the mission was a DevelopmentFlight Instrumentation (DFI) package which contained sensors and measuring devices to record orbiter performance and the stresses that occurred during launch, ascent, orbital flight, descent and landing.
The 36-orbit, 933,757-mile-long flight lasted 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes and 32 seconds. Landing took place on Runway 23 at Edwards AFB, Calif., on April 14, 1981, at 10:21 a.m. PST. Post-flight inspection of the Columbia revealed that an overpressure wave which occurred when the SRB ignited resulted in the loss of 16 heat shield tiles and damage to 148 others. In all other respects, however, Columbia came through the flight with flying colors, and it was to fly the next four Shuttle missions.
Columbia was returned to Kennedy Space Center from California on April 28 atop its 747 carrier aircraft.

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"An astronaut's eye view of what happens inside the flight deck during landing... at the Ke...

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"An astronaut's eye view of what happens inside the flight deck during landing... at the Kennedy Space Center. This footage was taken onboard Space Shuttle mission STS-65, the mission that launched the InternationalMicrogravity Laboratory in 1994. This raw footage could be useful for classroom launch simulations." The original footage was shot on a CanonHi-8 camcorder.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
Commander: Robert D. CabanaPilot: James Donald Halsell, Jr.MissionSpecialists: Richard J. Hieb, Carl E. Walz, Leroy Chiao, Donald A. ThomasPayload Specialist: Chiaki Naito-MukaiDates: July 8-22, 1994
Vehicle: ColumbiaOV-102
Payloads: IML-2, CPCG, SAREX-II, OARE, MAST, and AMOSLanding site: Runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center, FL
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Re-entry_and_landing
Almost the entire Space Shuttle re-entry procedure, except for lowering the landing gear and deploying the air data probes, was normally performed under computer control. However, the re-entry could be flown entirely manually if an emergency arose. The approach and landing phase could be controlled by the autopilot, but was usually hand flown.
The vehicle began re-entry by firing the Orbital maneuvering system engines, while flying upside down, backside first, in the opposite direction to orbital motion for approximately three minutes, which reduced the Shuttle's velocity by about 200 mph (322 km/h). The resultant slowing of the Shuttle lowered its orbital perigee down into the upper atmosphere. The Shuttle then flipped over, by pushing its nose down (which was actually "up" relative to the Earth, because it was flying upside down). This OMS firing was done roughly halfway around the globe from the landing site.
The vehicle started encountering more significant air density in the lower thermosphere at about 400,000 ft (120 km), at around Mach 25, 8,200 m/s (30,000 km/h; 18,000 mph). The vehicle was controlled by a combination of RCS thrusters and control surfaces, to fly at a 40-degree nose-up attitude, producing high drag, not only to slow it down to landing speed, but also to reduce reentry heating. As the vehicle encountered progressively denser air, it began a gradual transition from spacecraft to aircraft. In a straight line, its 40-degree nose-up attitude would cause the descent angle to flatten-out, or even rise. The vehicle therefore performed a series of four steep S-shaped banking turns, each lasting several minutes, at up to 70 degrees of bank, while still maintaining the 40-degree angle of attack. In this way it dissipated speed sideways rather than upwards. This occurred during the 'hottest' phase of re-entry, when the heat-shield glowed red and the G-forces were at their highest. By the end of the last turn, the transition to aircraft was almost complete. The vehicle leveled its wings, lowered its nose into a shallow dive and began its approach to the landing site...
The orbiter's maximum glide ratio/lift-to-drag ratio varies considerably with speed, ranging from 1:1 at hypersonic speeds, 2:1 at supersonic speeds and reaching 4.5:1 at subsonic speeds during approach and landing.
In the lower atmosphere, the orbiter flies much like a conventional glider, except for a much higher descent rate, over 50 m/s (180 km/h; 110 mph) or 9,800 fpm. At approximately Mach 3, two air data probes, located on the left and right sides of the orbiter's forward lower fuselage, are deployed to sense air pressure related to the vehicle's movement in the atmosphere.
When the approach and landing phase began, the orbiter was at a 3,000 m (9,800 ft) altitude, 12 km (7.5 mi) from the runway. The pilots applied aerodynamic braking to help slow down the vehicle. The orbiter's speed was reduced from 682 to 346 km/h (424 to 215 mph), approximately, at touch-down (compared to 260 km/h or 160 mph for a jet airliner). The landing gear was deployed while the Orbiter was flying at 430 km/h (270 mph). To assist the speed brakes, a 12 m (39 ft) drag chute was deployed either after main gear or nose gear touchdown (depending on selected chute deploy mode) at about 343 km/h (213 mph). The chute was jettisoned once the orbiter slowed to 110 km/h (68.4 mph)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-65
STS-65 was a Space Shuttle program mission of Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 8 July 1994. The flight was commanded by Robert D. Cabana who would go on later to lead the Kennedy Space Center.

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"An astronaut's eye view of what happens inside the flight deck during landing... at the Kennedy Space Center. This footage was taken onboard Space Shuttle mission STS-65, the mission that launched the InternationalMicrogravity Laboratory in 1994. This raw footage could be useful for classroom launch simulations." The original footage was shot on a CanonHi-8 camcorder.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
Commander: Robert D. CabanaPilot: James Donald Halsell, Jr.MissionSpecialists: Richard J. Hieb, Carl E. Walz, Leroy Chiao, Donald A. ThomasPayload Specialist: Chiaki Naito-MukaiDates: July 8-22, 1994
Vehicle: ColumbiaOV-102
Payloads: IML-2, CPCG, SAREX-II, OARE, MAST, and AMOSLanding site: Runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center, FL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Re-entry_and_landing
Almost the entire Space Shuttle re-entry procedure, except for lowering the landing gear and deploying the air data probes, was normally performed under computer control. However, the re-entry could be flown entirely manually if an emergency arose. The approach and landing phase could be controlled by the autopilot, but was usually hand flown.
The vehicle began re-entry by firing the Orbital maneuvering system engines, while flying upside down, backside first, in the opposite direction to orbital motion for approximately three minutes, which reduced the Shuttle's velocity by about 200 mph (322 km/h). The resultant slowing of the Shuttle lowered its orbital perigee down into the upper atmosphere. The Shuttle then flipped over, by pushing its nose down (which was actually "up" relative to the Earth, because it was flying upside down). This OMS firing was done roughly halfway around the globe from the landing site.
The vehicle started encountering more significant air density in the lower thermosphere at about 400,000 ft (120 km), at around Mach 25, 8,200 m/s (30,000 km/h; 18,000 mph). The vehicle was controlled by a combination of RCS thrusters and control surfaces, to fly at a 40-degree nose-up attitude, producing high drag, not only to slow it down to landing speed, but also to reduce reentry heating. As the vehicle encountered progressively denser air, it began a gradual transition from spacecraft to aircraft. In a straight line, its 40-degree nose-up attitude would cause the descent angle to flatten-out, or even rise. The vehicle therefore performed a series of four steep S-shaped banking turns, each lasting several minutes, at up to 70 degrees of bank, while still maintaining the 40-degree angle of attack. In this way it dissipated speed sideways rather than upwards. This occurred during the 'hottest' phase of re-entry, when the heat-shield glowed red and the G-forces were at their highest. By the end of the last turn, the transition to aircraft was almost complete. The vehicle leveled its wings, lowered its nose into a shallow dive and began its approach to the landing site...
The orbiter's maximum glide ratio/lift-to-drag ratio varies considerably with speed, ranging from 1:1 at hypersonic speeds, 2:1 at supersonic speeds and reaching 4.5:1 at subsonic speeds during approach and landing.
In the lower atmosphere, the orbiter flies much like a conventional glider, except for a much higher descent rate, over 50 m/s (180 km/h; 110 mph) or 9,800 fpm. At approximately Mach 3, two air data probes, located on the left and right sides of the orbiter's forward lower fuselage, are deployed to sense air pressure related to the vehicle's movement in the atmosphere.
When the approach and landing phase began, the orbiter was at a 3,000 m (9,800 ft) altitude, 12 km (7.5 mi) from the runway. The pilots applied aerodynamic braking to help slow down the vehicle. The orbiter's speed was reduced from 682 to 346 km/h (424 to 215 mph), approximately, at touch-down (compared to 260 km/h or 160 mph for a jet airliner). The landing gear was deployed while the Orbiter was flying at 430 km/h (270 mph). To assist the speed brakes, a 12 m (39 ft) drag chute was deployed either after main gear or nose gear touchdown (depending on selected chute deploy mode) at about 343 km/h (213 mph). The chute was jettisoned once the orbiter slowed to 110 km/h (68.4 mph)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-65
STS-65 was a Space Shuttle program mission of Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 8 July 1994. The flight was commanded by Robert D. Cabana who would go on later to lead the Kennedy Space Center.

It's trip report time! This summer (while I was living in Jefferson City), I was invited by some friends of mine who live in Chicago to come up to see a David Gray concert and to check out the city while I was there. I'm never one to turn down free tickets, but I had a few issues. Problem 1: They had no room for me in the apartment. Problem 2: Chicago is about a 6-7 hour drive from Jeff City and parking in downtown Chicago is prohibitively expensive. I pretty much wrote off the idea of making the trip until I remembered that American offered a few daily flights up to Chicago out of our local regional airport. The price turned out to be very reasonable, so I nabbed a room on sale on hotels.com and booked the flight. It ended up being well worth it--I had a great time in the city and, though my time was pretty limited, I ended up with some fun videos (this trip report included). David Gray was fantastic as well. It was an extremely fun way to end my summer.
Unfortunately, the flight didn't go quite as planned. While the delay was a serious downer, I'm glad that I managed to catch one of American Eagle's ERJ-140s before they all get retired (the 140 is the same as the ERJ-145 minus two rows of seats).
Full tour of my hotel room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTg7BNeXykg
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It's trip report time! This summer (while I was living in Jefferson City), I was invited by some friends of mine who live in Chicago to come up to see a David Gray concert and to check out the city while I was there. I'm never one to turn down free tickets, but I had a few issues. Problem 1: They had no room for me in the apartment. Problem 2: Chicago is about a 6-7 hour drive from Jeff City and parking in downtown Chicago is prohibitively expensive. I pretty much wrote off the idea of making the trip until I remembered that American offered a few daily flights up to Chicago out of our local regional airport. The price turned out to be very reasonable, so I nabbed a room on sale on hotels.com and booked the flight. It ended up being well worth it--I had a great time in the city and, though my time was pretty limited, I ended up with some fun videos (this trip report included). David Gray was fantastic as well. It was an extremely fun way to end my summer.
Unfortunately, the flight didn't go quite as planned. While the delay was a serious downer, I'm glad that I managed to catch one of American Eagle's ERJ-140s before they all get retired (the 140 is the same as the ERJ-145 minus two rows of seats).
Full tour of my hotel room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTg7BNeXykg
Check out some of my photos from the trip: https://www.flickr.com/photos/missourisphotographer/sets/72157648386766889/
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Added subtitles to final moments of STS-107Space Shuttle Columbia Re-Entry Video
Here is a quick timeline of what occurred around the time of the video:
Video recording started at 08:41:35 a.m. (EST) February 1, 2003...
Video ends at 08:48:14 a.m. Shuttle is moving at mach 24.66 (18,771 mph) at an altitude of 230,348 ft.
The first indication that something is wrong occurs at 08:48:39 a.m ( 25 seconds after video ends ) when one of the Strain (correlates to force) gauge sensors on the left wing Fails (this is close to where a piece of foam had hit the space shuttle during launch)
Followed by the first sign of unusual Heating occurring at 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) when a Temperature sensor near one of the left wing panels that was hit by foam shows an abnormal increase.
Between 08:48:59 a.m ( 45 seconds after video ends) and 08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) a number of the sensors on the left side of the shuttle are showing some unusual readings.
08:52:29 a.m. ( 4 minutes 15 seconds after video ends) First signs of trouble begin to appear on right side of shuttle when approximately 10 percent of the strain gauges in the right wing show a small but unusual data trend.
After this point, heating abnormalities become more and more of a problem causing some holes in the left wing to allow hot gasses to enter the internals of the wing and create imbalances in the flow over the wing.
The shuttle is on auto-pilot and begins making small adjustments to compensate for the abnormal flows which are causing the shuttle to veer off its planned course.
08:53:45 a.m. ( 5 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) First report of debris observed leaving the orbiter.
For the next 5 minutes, multiple failures occur due to the excessive heat. Debris is seen leaving the orbiter from observers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico.
At 08:58:04 a.m. ( 9 minutes 5 seconds after video ends ) Very large adjustments are calculated by the auto-pilot to correct major flight instability.
08:58:20 a.m ( 9 minutes 16 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle crosses Mexico border into Texas.
08:58:48 a.m. ( 9 minutes 44 seconds after video ends ) Shuttle CommanderRick Husband transmits a radio communication "And, uh, Hou(ston)..."
08:59:32 a.m. ( 10 minutes 33 seconds after video ends ) Rick Husband transmits his last radio communication "Roger, uh buh (CUTOFF)" (Editor's note: Phonetically, sounded like first syllable of "before" or possibly "both;" he may have been responding to the BFS fault messages for both left-side main landing gear tires) This coincides with the INITIAL LOSS OF SIGNAL (LOS) at which point no data is able to be streamed to mission control.
MajorCrash/Breakup occurs around 09:00:02 a.m. A final data burst is transmitted from the shuttle but reports mostly errors and garbled data, only a few of the measurements could be analysed. ( 11 minutes 3 seconds after video ends )
At the time of breakup the shuttle was travelling about 12,500 mph at an altitude of 207,000 feet
Normally this onboard video would have recorded the entire landing sequence all the way to touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
This video was recovered from the wreckage but the final moments were damaged and so it ends premature.
Unfortunate as it was, at the very least, the crew was doing something they loved. God bless them:
Commander: Rick D. Husband, a U.S. AirForce colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96).
Pilot: William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander
Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and
physicist who was in charge of the science mission.
Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer who was on her second space mission.
Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a U.S. Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.
Mission Specialist: Laurel Blair Salton Clark, a U.S. Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.

Subtitled Last COCKPIT Tape Shuttle Columbia Accident + Crew Audio

Subtitled last tape from the cockpit crew on the fatal re-entry. Space Shuttle ColumbiaSTS-107 was lost on its 28th mission
HQ version HERE: http://youtu.be/_rIHdk-_UoM .... The only surviving minutes on a piece of tape found on the ground ( +BBC in/outro) .. .. .►more info ►
Among the 80.000 recovered items later found on the ground was this videotape recording made by the astronauts during the start of re-entry. The 13-minute recording shows the flight crew astronauts conducting routine re-entry procedures and joking with each other. None gives any indication of a problem.
In this video, the flight-deck crew puts on their gloves and passes the video camera around to record plasma and flames visible outside the windows of the orbiter (a normal occurrence).
This recording, which on normal flights would have continued through landing, ends about four minutes before the shuttle began to disintegrate and 11 minutes before Mission Control lost the signal from the orbiter
Space ShuttleCrew:
flightdeck:
CommanderRick D. HusbandPilotWilliam C. McCoolMission Specialist4 Laurel B. Clark
Mission Specialist 2 Kalpana Chawla
Miid deck : (not in video)
Ilan RamonMichael AndersonDavid Brown
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Most Dangerous Landing in Colombia - Cockpit View [HD 1080p]

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Antonio Nariño Airport (IATA: PSO, ICAO: SKPS) is located in the town of ...

Most Dangerous Landing in Colombia - Cockpit View [HD 1080p]

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Antonio Nariño Airport (IATA: PSO, ICAO: SKPS) is located in the town of Chachagüí and serves the city of Pasto, which is located 35km away from the airport. The airport only handles domestic flights in addition to military operations and private charters
ElevationAMSL: 5.951 ft
The airport's runway was built on a plateau of 50 meters because of the surrounding terrain. Due to this, many pilots refer to the airport as an aircraft carrier. The runway is also relatively short for the altitude at which the airport is at.
The position of the runway means that it is often rendered useless since, in the presence of crosswinds, it prevents aircraft making a safe take off and landing. Crosswinds are common during the summer, particularly during the month of August.
Since 2007, the runway has been equipped with an Localizer, which permits airport operations during the night and when there is low visibility. However, a suitable place is being sought for to build a new airport due to the big increase in passengers and cargo and also since the current airport is often closed due to poor weather conditions.
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NASA briefing on Columbia shuttle tragedy

Houston, TexasFebruary 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
1. Shuttle tracking on screen
2. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Everything look good to you? Control and right seems normal right?"
3. UPSOUND Flight Control
"Control has been stable through the rolls that we've ..."
4. UPSOUND Flight Director
"Go ahead Max"
5. UPSOUND Flight Control
"FYII've just lost four seperate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle. The hydraulic return temperatures."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"From the very first indications that we had of the hydraulic return temperature indications failed, that gave me pause. There were several smaller events leading up to the loss of signal where I became increasingly concerned given that most of the activity in the sensors that were failed and the like was on the left wing. So there was som increasing concern."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
7. UPSOUND Flight Director
"ColumbiaHouston com check"
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"We had recieved some unconfirmed information based on some sightings and when I put that information with the known events that we already had it gave me great puase."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
9. UPSOUND Flight Director
"TC Flight, lock the doors."
Houston, Texas February 14, 2003
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Leroy Cain Flight Director
"The first time I thought about that was the very first call from the mechanical systems officer, from Max, that said that flight max had lost four hydraulic return temperature indications."
Houston, Texas February 1, 2003 (NASA TV - Access All)
11. Flight Controller crying
12. Video screen of telemetry
STORYLINE:
The Columbia investigation board is trying to zero in on what caused the hole in the shuttle's aluminum skin that apparently allowed super-hot gases to penetrate the wing
and destroy the spacecraft.
The investigators have said that a gash or some other kind of
breach probably doomed the spacecraft.
The board is analyzing various possible causes for the breach.
One possibility, raised from the very start of the investigation, is that the shuttle was damaged by a hard piece of foam insulation that fell off the external fuel tank during liftoff.
On Friday, flight director Leroy Cain said that the foam debris immediately came to mind on Feb. 1 during the shuttle's final moments when he was first told of sensors breaking down in the spacecraft's left wing as it glided toward home.
"That gave me pause. That was the first time I had thought
about that debris hit we took on ascent," Cain said. But he said that when he learned about the sensor readings, he did not imagine that it would spell the end for the shuttle and its crew: "I did not think that we would lose it."
One by one, sensors embedded throughout Columbia's left wing
began recording unusual readings as the shuttle approached the California coast on Feb. 1. The precise meaning of those readings was not immediately clear to Mission Control, Cain said.
The wings have only a few sensors, not enough to confirm in real time whether the landing gear hatch had come open or had been breached to allow the superheated gases, called plasma, to penetrate the wing, he added.
Seven minutes after the first indication of a problem, Columbia broke up in the sky over Texas, killing its crew of seven.
In Mission Control, it took minutes for the flight team to
realize what had happened to Columbia. It was reports from the field, including TV images, that confirmed for the flight team that the mission had ended in disaster, Cain said.
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STS-107 - The Columbia Accident

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STS-107 - This video starts about 12 minutes before the de-orbit burn and runs through until just after the "Close the Doors" instruction by Leroy Cain. The film is made up of MCC video broacast on the day (audio is in right channel), Flight Directors Loop (in the left channel), the recovered film taken onboard Columbia (audio is in the left channel along with the FD Loop), simulator footage of the de-orbit burn and some of the re-entry, photos from the flight that were either recovered or transmitted to the ground during the mission, some photos taken of Columbia during the flight by long range ground cameras and footage of the destruction taken by amateur video operators and an Apache helicopter crew (footage taken from ChrisValentines excellent video timeline of the events).
I have tried to synch the video and audio from the three NASA sources and would guesstimate that I have gotten it as close as possible to real time, which, I felt, was very important for this video.
I would highly recommend listening to the audio with headphones or on well spaced apart speakers.
The video is dedicated to the crew of STS-107.
Thanks for reading this description - LM5
All photos/video/audio courtesy NASA unless stated otherwise.

Space Shuttle Missions playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL432F188226C29E68
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.htmlAstronauts: Joe H. Engle and Richard H. TrulyLaunch date: November 12, 1981Covers unprecedented second launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft. Also includes the events leading up to the second launch, major crew activities on-orbit, and landing.
NASA film HQ-324 aka JSC-818
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Originally a public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
STS-2MissionReport
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830001834_1983001834.pdf
A new epoch in space travel—the era of reusable space vehicles—opened with the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at
10:10 a.m EST, November 12, 1981. The manned Space Shuttle orbiterColumbia flew into space again, making It the first space vehicle to be used more than once—another step toward certifying Space Shuttle as an operational spacecraft.
Columbia is the first of four planned orbiters... This mission, called STS-2, is the second of four orbital flight tests designed to Improve and ready STS for
operational use...
The flight test was planned to last for more than five days. However, early on the first day, trouble developed in one of Columbia's fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen Into electrical power for the spacecraft and drinking water for the crew. With one of three fuel cells malfunctioning, mission safety rules called for STS-2 to be reduced to a minimal mission lasting 54 hours (36 orbits of Earth). After some
deliberation, test managers decided to go by the book. As a result, the crew—NASA astronauts Joe H. Engle, commander, and Richard H. Truly, pilot—reluctantly
cut short their space mission, landing Columbia at 4:23 p m. EST, November 14, at Edwards Air Force Base. California. Their total flight time was 2 days, 6
hours, 13 rnmutes and 12 seconds...
Among their major goals was the first test in space of a Canadian-built remote manipulator system. The system is comprised of a huge mechanical arm,
operating from Columbia's cavernous payload bay and guided by controls on Columbia's control deck. The system is designed to deploy payloads into orbit
and retrieve them, as well as for other freight -handling activities in space. The arm can even be used to reach around and inspect various external parts of Columbia. It has its own lighting system and closed circuit television so that the crews operating it have a close-up view of what they are doing.
The mechanical arm is jointed like a human arm at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Fully extended, it is 15.3 meters (50 feet) long. It is 38 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter. Despite its size, it is made of sturdy, lightweight materials giving it a weight on Earth of only 408 kilograms (900 pounds). The human analogy ends with the wrist. Its "hand," called an "end effector," consists of a snare wire device that can be
tightened around grapples attached to the payloads.
Engle and Truly operated the arm in all of its modes, ranging from fully automatic, in which it is programmed in advance by computer to perform a series of operations, to fully manual, in which it is operated directly from a control panel that bypasses the
computer...
In addition to gathering engineering dam, Columbia in STS-2 conducted experiments that would contribute to such fields as prospecting for oil, gas, coal, and minerals, locating promising ocean fishing grounds, understanding how gravity affects plant growth, forecasting thunderstorms and other severe weather, and measuring air pollution.

Dr. PeterDavidBeter - AudioLetter 64 - April 27,1981Text: http://www.peterdavidbeter.com/docs/all/dbal64.htmlMP3: http://archive.org/download/DrPeterBeter_AudioVideoLetters/drpeterbetter_audioletter_64.mp3
(1) The advance preparations for the Space Shuttle mission
(2) The aborted flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
(3) The NASA cover-up of the Columbia disaster
" "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4...We've gone for main engine
start. We have main engine start." (Engine noise takes over for
some two seconds) "...liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle,
and the Shuttle has cleared the tower." (Then again the roaring
noise on the AUDIO LETTER tape.)
And that's how it all began, my friends, just two weeks
ago--Sunday, April 12, 1981. After years of delay, America's
first attempt to launch a space shuttle into orbit had finally
begun.
In days gone by, the voice of "Mission Control" has always
been a familiar hallmark of American manned flights into space.
In the early days, beginning with "PROJECT MERCURY", the voice
was that of Col. John (Shorty) Powers. Later, during the
"APOLLO" program there were other voices; but regardless of who
it was, that familiar voice of "Mission Control" would always
stay with us throughout each space flight--that is, until this
time. This time the voice of Mission Control, up until the
moment of launch, was that of NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. The
last words Harris spoke as the voice of Mission Control were the
words you just heard: "The Shuttle has cleared the tower."
Television cameras followed the Shuttle as it climbed higher
and higher on a column of steam and smoke. For another 30
seconds or so, we were allowed to hear the slowly fading roar of
the Shuttle's rocket engines. Then the sounds from Mission
Control abruptly changed. Exactly 45 seconds after lift-off,
"live" audio from Mission Control was terminated. In its place
NASA began feeding the radio and television networks an elaborate
tape recording, which had been prepared far ahead of time by
NASA. The change-over from "live" audio to the NASA tape
recording sounded like this: (First, loud roaring for 10 seconds,
abruptly fading, then into a steadily increasing-in-loudness
humming-roaring for some 10 seconds.) "4-34...?" "Roger."
(More of the roaring sound.)
Just 45 seconds after lift-off, the falsified NASA coverage of
the flight of the "Columbia" began. We were still able to see
the Columbia by way of long-distance television cameras for
another minute and a half, but the sounds we were hearing were no
longer "live." They were the sounds of the special NASA tape
recording. For the first minute or so of the tape recording, we
heard nothing but the sound effects simulating conversation
between the Shuttle and NASA-Houston. Then, for the first time,
we heard the anonymous new voice of Mission Control. It was no
longer the familiar live voice of Hugh Harris, but the recorded
voice of someone else. For added realism, the new voice was
interrupted in turn by the recorded voice of the alleged capsule
communicator Daniel Brandenstein. It sounded like this: (first a
high-pitched screech followed by) "One minute 45 seconds, coming
up on go-go-go." "Columbia, you're negative seats." "That
call-up says that, Columbia, the altitude is too high for
ejection seat use."
By that point the shuttle Columbia was more than 20 miles
high, and climbing fast. Everything was going according to plan
so far, so the things we were hearing on the tape recording
corresponded to what we were seeing. We could still see the
Shuttle on our TV sets, but it had dwindled to nothing more than
three bright spots dancing in the distant sky.
The last thing that you and I were able to see and verify for
ourselves about the Shuttle was the separation of those two giant
solid-rocket boosters. A little over two minutes after liftoff,
we were able to watch the boosters, two burning bright spots,
break off to each side. That left only the single tiny flame of
the Shuttle itself, gradually fading into invisibility. Several
seconds later the NASA tape recording caught up with what we had
already seen, and said the boosters had separated. Moments later
the tiny bright dot of the Shuttle faded from our screens. It
was too far away for the television cameras to follow any longer.
We had had our last look at the real space shuttle Columbia!
In AUDIO LETTER No. 62 two months ago, I gave an advance alert
about the secret military mission of the space shuttle Columbia.
At that time I made public what the mission was really all about.
I was also able to reveal what to expect in the falsified NASA
coverage of the mission. ..."

Landing of the first Space Shuttle (STS-1) - Full Coverage of the Historical Event - worth seeing

Columbia was the first space shuttle aircraft to reach space, in 1981. Columbia (STS-1) carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, reaching several milestones. Columbia also underwent upgrades as technology advanced.
Event starts: 0:01
LandingCoverage starts 01:02:09
Landing 01:09:00
Discussions on developing a reusable spacecraft began in earnest in 1966, when NASA was looking to figure out what programs would come after Apollo. While NASA was tasked with beginning the work, development was held off for years by budgetary constraints, according to NASA Historical documentary.
With Columbia on the runway at Edwards, Challenger and the SCA took off on July 4 under the watchful eye of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan. One day later, Challenger arrived at the Kennedy Space Center.
Some compromises were made in the design in response to budgetary constraints and input from the aircraft, which was expected to be a major customer of the shuttle. For example, the size of the cargo bay was increased to accommodate large military satellites. Also, it was decided to make the shuttle only partially reusable instead of fully reusable to save on development costs, although critics noted this would increase the costs of individual flights.

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/space_shuttle_news.html
"This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, as well as the landing in Rogers Dry Lake bed in California."
NASA film JSC-814
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts.
from the STS-1Press Kit
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20040050928_2004048426.pdfThe SpaceShuttle orbiter Columbia, first in a planned fleet of spacecraft in the nation's Space Transportation System, will liftoff on its first orbital shakedown flight in April 1981. Launch will be no earlier than 45 minutes after sunrise from the NASA Kennedy Space CenterLaunch Complex 39A.
Crew for the first orbital flight will be John W. Young, commander, veteran of two Gemini and two Apollo space flights, and U.S. Navy Capt. Robert L. Crippen, pilot. Crippen has not flown in space.
Columbia will have no payloads in the payload bay on this first orbital flight, but will carry instrumentation for measuring orbiter systems performance in space and during its glide through the atmosphere to a landing after 54 1/2 hours.
Extensive testing of orbiter systems, including the space radiators and other heat rejection systems, fills most of the STS-1 mission timeline. The clamshell-like doors on Columbia's 4.6 by 18-meter (15 by 60-foot) payload bay will be opened and closed twice during the flight for testing door actuators and latch mechanisms in the space environment. Other tests will measure performance of maneuvering and attitude thrusters, the Columbia's computer array and avionics "black boxes," and, during entry, silica-tile heatshield temperatures.
The first of four engineering test flights, STS-1, will be launched into a 40.3 degree inclination orbit circularized first at 241 kilometers (130 nautical miles) and later boosted to 278 km (150 nm). Columbia will be used in these four test flights in proving the combined booster and orbiter combination before the Space Transportation System becomes operational with STS-5, now forecast for launch in September 1982.
After "tower clear" the launch team in the Kennedy Space Center FiringRoom will hand over STS-1 control to flight controllers in the Mission Control Center, Houston, for the remainder of the flight.
Columbia's two orbital maneuvering system hypergolic engines will fire at approximately 53 1/2 hours over the Indian ocean to bring the spacecraft to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., an hour later. The approach to landing will cross the California coast near Big Sur at 42,670 m (140,000 ft.) altitude, pass over Bakersfield and Mojave, and end with a sweeping 225-degree left turn onto final approach.
Young and Crippen will land Columbia manually on this first test flight. A microwave landing system on the ground will be the primary landing aid in subsequent flights, with optional manual takeover. Kennedy landing teams will remove the flight crew and "safe" the orbiter after landing. The first three test flights land on Rogers Dry Lake, the fourth on the main runway at Edwards Air Force Base, and STS-5 will land on the 4,570-m (15,000-ft.) concrete Shuttle Landing Facility runway at Kennedy Space Center.
STS-1 will be the first manned flight using solid rocket boosters. No previous U.S. space vehicle has been manned on its maiden flight.
Space Shuttle, STS-1, NASA, KSC, Shuttle launch, Shuttle landing, John Young, Robert Crippen, spaceflight, spacecraft, first flight, orbit, SSME, SRB, ET, orbiter, space program, astronauts,

The Greatest Test Flight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)

The GreatestTestFlight - STS-1 (Full Mission 03)
STS-1 - Columbia - April 12-14 1981 - Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR) and Bob Crippen (PLT).
This is the third video of an intended series which will cover the first Space Shuttle flight from countdown to touchdown.
Part 03 - The Countdown for the launch continuesand concludes with the sucessfull launch of Columbia and her crew. The video ends with orbit and the 1st of two planned OMS burns achieved .
Some video was substituted where it wasnt available - for instance I have used some static pad shots from the April 10th attempt. The final countdown from T-20 minutes is as broadcast and the launch includes the broadcast views along with a previous video (STS-1 multi screen) and some video from the post flight press conference. Countdown and PostLaunch clock is for reference only and is not accurate to the timeline. Captions are used to inform the viewer what he/she is watching. Photos have been added where appropriate. To complete the sequence OrbiterSpaceSimulator has been used from SRBSEP through to the OMS burn.
The video is captured on a 16:9 screen to allow captioning and photos/video to be shown by the side of the main screen.
Audio is in two channels. One covers the PAO channel and the other is the launch director loops which carried the comm from the launch team at the Cape.
My personal thanks to JL Pickering and Ed Hengveld who produce excellent photo CDs of space missions that really enhanced the video.
All video/pictures and audio is courtesy NASA.﻿

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STS-107 Re-entry live NASA TV coverage of the Columbia accident

This is the live NASA Television broadcast with commentary of the ill-fated re-entry and d...

STS-107 Re-entry live NASA TV coverage of the Columbia accident

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